This blog entry was pointed out to me since most everyone I know is aware of my love of travel. After I read it, I thought of so many of you......
Travelling
BTW--this blog is not racist. It's a satirical look on certain types of people that really has nothing to do with skin color.
...certain types of people..
White people?
Of course the blog makes jokes based on stereotypes about race but that doesn't stop it from being very, very funny.
Although I suspect an equally well observed satire on "Stuff Black People Like" wouldn't be quite as welcome.
Very funny, Frank! Thanks for sharing that. And it's true, lots of people think their trip(s) are vastly better and more unique than anyone else's, and that no one else does it the "right way". :)
Actually, it's making fun of "trendy urbanites and progressives"--those trying so hard to be "Hip." What we used to call "yuppies."
Other entries pertaining to travel include:
Moleskine Notebooks
Promising to Learn a New Language
Loved this part:
"What’s amazing is that all white people have pretty much the same experience, but all of them believe theirs to be the first of its kind. So much so that they return to North America with ideas of writing novels and screenplays about their experience."
How many times have you read/heard this: "Check out my travel blog!"
Thanks Frank. I had read this blog a really long time ago and kinda forgot about it. Glad you posted it for us. It is pretty funny. I like the other ones that are out there too, as I think someone else mentioned, "stuff black people like" and I had read another one, "stuff Asian people like" and they are all hilarious. It is great when we can laugh at ourselves.
That was funny!
Isn't it great that we can laugh at ourselves! That site is really funny, and true I might add!
Well I do love that site and I know it was tongue-in-cheek, but...
I actually think that real travelers - people who go to specific places because they feel as though they have some kind of emotional connection to a place, or at very least a real reason for wanting to go to said place (aside from, oh, they have nice museums). I think people like that really do all see a place differently and have interesting things to share. One of my friends recently went to Barcelona. She's a huge Gaudi fan. I went to Barcelona more for the food and history and the variety of neighborhoods to wander. Looking at her pictures - even of places I went - was like seeing the place in a new light, because it was through a different set of eyes. I love reading travel blogs and trip reports of places I've been because I find the perspectives interesting and different from my own.
Frank - Thanks for the laugh.
Pretentious and self-obsessed? Does it show? LOL
