Finding Inspiration on Film – A Travel Essay by guest blogger Robert Perkins
What’s up, 2011? Sooooo I had a whole other blog post I was going to kick off this Year of the Rabbit with, but I have been stricken with some sort of infuriating writer’s block and it isn’t coming together. Maybe because my football team just lost their bowl game, I don’t know. Then I realized I have been hoarding a particularly hilarious and insightful guest article since LAST MAY, thinking I would use it to launch my site’s re-design (the article is THAT good), which is likewise taking longer than the next Ice Age to come about….so what else am I...
Read MoreDumb Things I’ve Done While Traveling :)
Is there something about travel that makes us feel invincible? As in, “I’m away from my normal routine, let’s live on the edge?” Where things like stomach illness and gravity and looking like a total fool perhaps may not apply just because we’re on strange soil around people we’ll probably never see again? I’m not sure what explains the decisions we make when we leave the comforts of home for the beauty of a foreign land (maybe nothing does), but for whatever reason, I’ve done some pretty oddball things. Below is the short list: 1. ...
Read MoreAll Signs Point To…
And now for something completely different…some April Fools’ Day mindless humor! I had to share some of these on my blog because they were too funny to languish alone in my Mac’s photo files. Over the past year or so I’ve come across many a sign that made me do a double-take and go…”Really? Did they REALLY think about that before they had The Sign People print it?” And none of them (well, except maybe one) had anything to do with language barriers and everything to do with oddity, disingenuousness or just plain hilarity. Read on…. Unless you...
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