why travel? to write funny stories about places we don’t like much.
May 12th, 2008
“Lots of tourists view travel abroad as basically a chance to shop for regionally themed trinkets.”
hee - funny article on Slate about a grown man (well, a guy my age…) spending five days in Disneyland, not enjoying it all that much. reminiscent of A Supposely Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again. i love - reading and writing - the whole genre of cranky traveler lit.
sign #1 with flamingo yard #1
but here’s a strange thing I noticed the other day, when I was wandering around in the rain: two out of two yards I saw that had pink plastic flamingos on them also had Obama signs on them.
what’s the correlation?
sign #2 with flamingo yard #2
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Arin said:
obamanation! i love it - it’s a triple play on words!