Little known Thanksgiving fact:
Many of the Pilgrims who migrated to the Plymouth Plantation in what is now Virginia had resided in the city of Leiden, The Netherlands from 1609 to 1620.
Many of the Pilgrims had recorded their birth, marriages and deaths at the Pieterskerk, a late Gothic era church in Leiden, dedicated to Saint Peter. To commemorate this, a Thanksgiving Day service is held each year on the morning of the American Thanksgiving Day in the Pieterskerk to commemorate the hospitality the Pilgrims received in Leiden on their way to the New World.
This year, I shall celebrate the hospitality the Dutch have shown me so many times over the Thanksgiving holiday with @KatTevis in the Dutch homeland of The Netherlands...specifically Amsterdam. While I won't be attending the services at the Pieterskerk, I'll be there in spirit.
Amsterdam is the city of true freedom, to do as you wish, not be judged by others, discriminated against, or subjugated by double standards. On Thursday, I'll be giving thanks for being somewhere I can truly be myself, a man that is truly, totally, free from those that would bind me.
We’ll catch you on the flip side my friends…stay thirsty.
