Travel Recommendations
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So you've seen my
Toilets of the World
and other travel-related web pages, and you wonder how you, too,
can enjoy such plush accomodations?
Here's how to find the places where I've gone,
sometimes more than once, and lived to tell about it.
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Use at your own risk.
Not responsible for financial loss incurred,
mental anguish suffered, or diseases contracted.
Your mileage may vary.
Discontinue use in case of dizziness, blurred vision,
inability to urinate, or inability to stop urinating.
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Know What You're Doing
Read about where you're going.
Attempt to prepare yourself.
Get something like a
Lonely Planet
or
Rough Guide
book.
If you need to sort out local minibus schedules in Syria,
including how to pay for your ticket (pay the driver's assistant)
and how much it will probably cost (next to nothing),
they'll do the trick.
Suggestions Listed Here
Is It Safe?
Of all the places I've gone,
the most dangerous in several ways is the U.S.A.
Really.
The
shuffling zombie armies of vagrants in Atlanta
are creepy and threatening,
and
Washington D.C.
is dangerous in multiple ways at once.
Learn to Speak Something Vaguely Approximating the Local Language
At the very least,
a basic greeting
and the local words for
"Please"
and
"Thank you".
And then there are:
Travel Quotes
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The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
— Saint Augustine (354-430)
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It is better to travel well than to arrive.
— Buddha (563-483 BC)
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.
I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
— Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world,
and the best we can find in our travels is an
honest friend.
— Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about
other countries.
— Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
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The first condition of understanding a foreign country
is to smell it.
— Rudyard Kipling
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I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye
to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
— Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear
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That which does not kill me makes me stronger.
— Friedrich Neitzche
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All travel has its advantages.
If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn
to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse,
he may learn to enjoy it.
— Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land;
it is at last to set foot on one's own country as
a foreign land.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
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He who would travel happily must travel light.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944)
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education;
in the elder, a part of experience.
— Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
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[We travel] because we wanted to
travel — because we believed, in the light of previous experience,
that we should enjoy it.
— Peter Fleming, in News of Tartary, 1936
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The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always
wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.
— Britney Spears (1981-),
disproving Sir Francis Bacon's claim
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