Florida Culture for the Week of June 10 by Josh Garrick

June 13 -- Urban Thoughts with Kathy Ramsberger

I have traveled quite a bit in Scandinavia over the years, but I had yet to see all of the countries, the last one on my list being Iceland. Now I have been dying to see Iceland for quite some time, so I am not sure why it has taken me so many years to finally get there. Reykjavik is only a three hour nonstop flight from Stockholm via Iceland Air.

My whole life, I have been very small. My mother would always tell me to put on some more weight, because I was just so tiny. I swear, two months in Italy and I gained at least ten pounds. I just couldn’t stop eating the delicious food. Italian meals are very simple, but the ingredients used to make every meal are fresh.

What will I do with the next decade? I absolutely love this question, because it really makes me think.

I've long wanted to go to the Caribbean island of Dominica.

Back in the day, science was often relegated to wealthy, self-funded explorers and “gentlemen scientists” the likes of Benjamin Franklin, Charles Darwin, and Isaac Newton. One could argue that they were the original “citizen scientists” but back then you had to have money and time to explore the world and formulate big thoughts.