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Jumping To Conqueuesions
Hell is Other People
Bribing Your Way Onboard
The Real Information Super Highway
Road trips are interesting in that, because you are in a car you can spontaneously alter course should you come across an unexpected point of interest. But you likely also have a schedule to keep and a list of attractions you want to visit, turning any potential detours into stress-inducing decisions. How do you mesh…
How Much Liquor Is Too Much?
Keeping with the wedding-related international smuggling theme from yesterday, I bring you this thread started by Ayalax on TripAdvisor in which she inquires as to how to get drugs into Colombia. Ok, so the real goal is to get some wedding-themed liquor bottles to the event – very thoughtful and something that will make a…
Five Pounds Worth of Security
If you have traveled enough, it has happened to you. A knock at your hotel door, immediately followed by the sound of a key in the door. And before you even have to time to shout out, “I swear I must have accidentally pressed the wrong button on the remote,” you are eye-to-eye with a…
Not Plane, Nor Bird, Nor Even Frog…
What’s that, up in the air at about 30,000 feet? Inside that shiny metal tube and surrounded by 100-200 human strangers. Why, it’s FamilyDog! The question is, who needs rescuing – Polly Purebread or her fellow passengers who are engaged in various stages of sneezing and ear plug manufacturing? As a pet owner like Christnp2, I…
Giving Thanks
For those of you who haven’t flown EasyJet before, picture what you imagine a South American bus ride would feel like. Take away the live chickens and replace them with two trinket-hawking “flight attendants” who are quite surly – especially given the fact their primary job appears to be selling you things you don’t want…
When It’s Ok to Flash Other Drivers
We’re talking about flashing your headlights here … get your heads out of the gutter people. floydbloke of New Zealand is planning a road trip through the U.S. and asks fellow TripAdvisors about the etiquette of flashing your brights on American roadways. Floyd gets his answer (SPOILER ALERT: we American’s don’t particularly care for it…