146. Travel Calmly
If you go traveling, this will happen to you: You will miss your bus, lose your passport, be late for your plane, get ripped off at a night market, eat something dodgy and throw up at least once.
You may also: Get lost in the jungle, be pick-pocketed, get bitten by a monkey, or nearly die in a para-sailing accident because over there the safety cable is “optional”.
If this bothers you , your trip will just be a hassle. If you travel calmly, however, these events will become your best stories and they will fill you full of anecdotes and tales to recount for years to come.
P.S.: On my last trip I was tricked into eating dog, had to leap off a dock onto a departing ferry boat, and lost my shoes and had to go barefoot in Cambodia for a day and a half. These three stories are on pretty high rotation right now.
May 14, 2011 at 10:05 pm
pete’s resemblance of joaqiun phoenix a la i’m still here is pretty cool
May 15, 2011 at 3:28 am
Alex is wearing a purple “Canucks” hat. That ups the cool factor by at least 50%.
PS: for those who don’t know: the Canucks are about to win the Stanley Cup. Everybody else in the NHL can suck it!!!