Sometimes you end up in a small touristy town, dancing on top of a picnic table with a gym teacher from Colorado, a crocodile-loving Maori, a quiet housewife from Cape York, and a dreadlocked WWOOFing hippie from Kalamazoo.

And then sometimes you wake up 13 years later wondering if it actually happened, until you hear that song again. All at once, it feels like you’re back there, but there’s a part of you that wonders if those fellow table dancers think about that exact same moment when they hear this song, too. 

So… HERE WE GO.

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If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody.

Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

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Anthony Bourdain’s final words in tonight’s No Reservations series finale.

(Source: travelchannel, via nedhepburn)

Should be completing work so I’m not sitting here ‘til midnight, but instead I’m spending time debating a career shift and, more importantly, wondering where I should go/who I should visit next.

And so ends another charming edition of Connie’s jaw-dropping First World Problems! Tune in next week when I contrast the benefits of MaraNatha raw maple almond vs sunflower seed butter! Gasp! #world #travel #firstworldproblems

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Oh, my. I found my favourite Reading Rainbow episode! Think: hats that take you all over the world. As a child, this blew my mind. As an adult, it still blows my mind. However, I’m somewhat disappointed, as I figured by the year 2012 this would actually be a real thing. Sigh.

IN RELATED NEWS

Last night host LeVar Burton made an all-call tweet to gain access to a dead @ReadingRainbow Twitter account… and gained control within a few hours. Amazing job, Internet.

Hmm. Maybe I should open up my own airport?

thedailywhat:

Don’t Keep The Change of the Day: The TSA disclosed today that it had collected a total of $409,085.56 in coins from forgetful or neglectful passengers over the course of 2010.

Rifling through what amounts to the world’s most profitable couch, the TSA turned up $376,480.39 in domestic currency and $32,605.17 in foreign coins.

TSA spokesman Greg Soule swears his agency isn’t just an elaborate scheme to bilk you out of your loose change. “[The TSA] makes every effort to reunite passengers with items left at the checkpoint,” says Soule.

So what happens to the money they collect? According to Soule, it goes to fund agency operations. Surprisingly, there are people in government who are just as upset about that as you are probably right now.

“Allowing TSA to keep unclaimed taxpayer money for any and all purposes is an egregious breach of its duty to the public that it serves,” wrote Rep. Jeff Miller (R-FL) to Rep. Peter King (R-NY), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.

Miller believes the cash should go to help the USO, but really anyone besides the TSA will do.

[usatoday.]

(Source: thedailywhat)

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