Ok I'll weigh in on today's hot topics!

*"The trip of a lifetime" has been mentioned and it seems doubted many times in these threads,yet I have only seen or heard it referred to once in that Durango Herald article -
http://http://durangoherald.com/article/20121215/NEWS01/121219687/0/s/A-boys-life--A Boy' Life. And it was not a direct quote from MR at that:
Mark vividly remembers the last vacation he took with his son, a road trip to Boston in August. They visited Fenway Park and went to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. It was a dream vacation for a boy who loves baseball and is a devoted Red Sox fan.
*I use fb but should you ever need to sleuth me, you won't get much satisfaction as I have all my privacy settings on "friends only". If you do happen to be a fb friend of mine, you will still be sorely disappointed as I simply choose not to share all my photo albums on facebook. I had no idea that I could be regarded as an oddity in that respect. How does anyone know whether or not Dylan himself doesn't have heaps of happy snaps uploaded, as he obviously doesn't care to share with strangers either.
IMO those who make the most noise or express their opinions most vehemently and repeatedly do not necessarily represent 'the norm' - whatever that is. I also don't consider myself (or my opinions for that matter) to be on the fringe of anything either.