A month or so ago, I had a meandering post about Burkard’s and my troubadour travels: Travelling Salesmen, Rainbow and the Value of Idiotic Effort. The post was, in part, about the value of rolling the dice, of meeting people about whom one knows next to nothing. When writing the post I had in mind a lovely person I had met in such a manner through the blog, earlier this year. We then happened to meet again soon after the Rainbow post, when she good-naturedly accused me of “clickbait”: she is an undergraduate, had just heard about the travelling salesman problem and felt short-changed by the absence of the problem in the post. So, to make minor amends, and without attempting to deny that pretty much all my titles are clickbait, here is a follow-up post with a little travelling salesman in it.
