I’ve been reading the TML list for 15 years now, and have posted no more than a dozen times, I suspect. But I want to thank you all for inspirational comments like this one, which emerge from interesting discussions that I regularly enjoy. 

Toph

On Jan 10, 2019, at 2:12 AM, Traveller Mailing List <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

Since I was 11 years old, no human being has been farther from Earth than San Francisco is from Los Angeles. The loss of that grand dream has been an ache my whole adult life. Yes, our robotic explorers are doing an amazing job as our proxies, but I still want to watch the blue-tinged sunset from the hill above my dome city on Mars, or prospect for volatiles in Jupiter's trailing trojans, or scale the gigantic cliffs of Miranda.