Duty Free Flying, Sort Of
“Please enjoy a duty-free flight,” announced the flight attendant. My eyes shut and I smiled at what I hoped would be a true and magical statement. While I love not paying duties, I wasn’t thinking...
View ArticleCurious Signs in an Airplane Bathroom
I’m always shocked by the irony of an airplane toilet. It’s one of those places where you can tell that those responsible for posting the signage had no faith in man’s intelligence. Yet at the same...
View ArticleJeju Island Love Land and the Teddy Bear Museums
In my last post about Jeju Island, I went into slight detail about Love Land, the sex museum, and the Teddy Bear Museum. That post was pretty PG-13. Now we’re going NC-17; (though the bit about the...
View ArticleKoreans and Jews
I once had a Korean tour guide in Toronto who, after showing us the old Jewish district, said, “We Koreans are the Jews of the Asians.” It was a funny statement at the time, but after traveling to...
View ArticleSurfing Japan: Lost in Translation
I was only in Tokyo for Sunday and Monday, but surfing Japan was a top priority. Of those two days, however, only the second seemed to promise any swell. A few years prior, I had met a Japanese surfer...
View ArticleParking in Waikiki, Jaywalking in Honolulu, and Getting Screwed by Adam Sandler
I like to go against the grain when I travel. But on Oahu, sometimes it’s safer to conform. I had read many of the parking blogs before arriving in Waikiki and just as the old life-has-rules joke...
View ArticleThe Selfie Stick
When I was traveling through one of Korea’s most popular traditional cities, I can’t recall anything that I saw. I simply don’t remember. I know that I had people-watched. But not the sort of people...
View ArticleOld Man and the Boryeong Mud Festival
I entered Korea’s Boryeong Mud Festival late; all of the youth were happily slipping and sliding and just caked in the stuff. My t-shirt was still white. Not a good look for anyone at a mud festival,...
View ArticleDriving in Korea
I like to write about driving in other countries because quite often I’m curious or intrigued by the things that I see on the road. Driving in Korea In Korea, for instance, besides every car...
View ArticleBethpage Polo at the Park
The thought of polo always rubbed me wrong. I used to play water polo at the University of Maryland. And while I’ve grown used to smiling off clever people who like to ask me where I parked my ark, I...
View ArticleDriving in Germany
I’m not a big fan of driving. So I wasn’t thrilled when I discovered that I needed a rental car to get around Germany. As a commuter in New York, I notice a common trend: every sixth driver is a...
View ArticleJews in Germany and 500 Years of Beer Purity Laws
For years, any time my father saw someone crack open a Miller High Life, he felt obliged to tell one of his preferred stories about the stupid tour guide at the brewery who, to this day, irritates him...
View ArticleBad Jokes Told By Americans in Germany
When all of… You will all… That’s all, folks. I’m outta here. Thanks for reading. Come back, ya hear. *** The post Bad Jokes Told By Americans in Germany appeared first on Somewhere Or Bust.
View ArticleSlowing Down on Skis
When my eldest daughter was three, I had asked her if she wanted to surf. The idea excited both of us. After all, she enjoyed flicks like Lilo and Stitch, where a destructive, koala-like...
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