Happy New Year New Decade and New predictions!
We were flying over the Pacific bound for Lima,Peru when the captain came on to announce the New Year! The plane erupted with everyone jumping up and hugging, kissing and shaking hands. Feliz Ano Nuevo! We are bound for Peru and Macchu Picchu, the Amazon jungle in Madre de Dios and Lake Titicaca (don't you love the names?). Great way to start off the year!
I just reviewed my New Year's predictions for 2010 and gotta say, with all due humility...."I was right on!" Check them out in my Dec 30 2009 blog.
So here are my 2011 New Year's predictions: Think about it....how could I be wrong with such a great track record?
1. Given the 2012 Mayan Calendar prediction of the end of the world, the last quarter of this year will be a chaos of people scrambling for emergency preparedness equipment, taking money out of the market and putting it under their pillow and in their underwear and generally over reacting to th predicted cataclysmic end of our days. My prediction is that the world will not come to an end anytime in 2012 and in fact it will be no more than a blimp on the landscape like the millenium change of Y2K.
2. The Chinese will continue to aspire to the acquisitive habits of the Americans and the growth of automobile and appliance consumption will fast forward with their burgeoning middle class. Roads that have been built outside the cities will actually start to see vacation traffic akin to the days of US 66 and the proverbial "road trip" will take on its' Chinese form.
3. The Israeli find of offshore natural gas will give them an increased sense of resource independence from Middle Eastern oil and their new gas fields will become another reason to separate them from the Middle Eastern Muslim populations.
4. Susan Boyle will become Octo Mom's day care provider and she will train and mold the next Van Trapp like singing sensation with the Octo Kids.
5. Jennifer Aniston will angst about whether or not to get lip injections to look more like Angelina or adopt a kid to look more like Angelina. She will opt for the lip injections.
6. Prince William and Kate Middleton will get married. But randy Prince Harry will be the first to have royal offspring without the benefit of wedlock.
7. The global population will continue to grow toward the democratization of everything. Democratization of commerce, ccommunication, power, resource consumption, religion and ideas. This will be the theme of my first book.
8. I will learn more about life through the lens of travel, taking in different cultures, zones, climates and experiences given the abundance with which I have been blessed.
9. Garlic and oil will be the universal food stuffs that unite us all.
10. I will make similar predictions for 2010 and hedge my bets on the Mayan calendar thing.
Happy 2011!
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