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Jul 5 2010
peepingtomfoolery: fyeahstrangefinds: WTF! Dirty Underwear Is For Hiding Your Valuables? The folks over at Sears sure do have a sense of humor. You see, carrying your cash and valuables when traveling adds another level to an already stressful situation. Will the hotel maid go snooping in your luggage? Can someone on the plane slip their hand into your carry-on bag while you’re asleep? Will TSA somehow grab something out of your tote while scanning for explosives? (I still think airport security in Vegas lifted a pair of Cavalli sunglasses when I wasn’t looking.) Well, Sears is selling the perfect solution for hiding your money and valuables while traveling. Dirty underwear! These specially designed drawers have a secret compartment in the fly for stashing whatever you like. But the real kicker is the strategically placed skid marks. Here’s what Sears says about the Brief Safe: “Even the most hardened burglar or most curious snoop will ‘skid’ to a screeching halt as soon as they see them. (Wouldn’t you?)” Um, yes, but I don’t go snooping through people’s stuff anyway. [$12.99, Sears] (submitted by victoriamber) I can’t believe Sears sells this… Hahaha.  Something for you consider, all you travelers out there.

peepingtomfoolery:

fyeahstrangefinds:

WTF! Dirty Underwear Is For Hiding Your Valuables?

The folks over at Sears sure do have a sense of humor. You see, carrying your cash and valuables when traveling adds another level to an already stressful situation. Will the hotel maid go snooping in your luggage? Can someone on the plane slip their hand into your carry-on bag while you’re asleep? Will TSA somehow grab something out of your tote while scanning for explosives? (I still think airport security in Vegas lifted a pair of Cavalli sunglasses when I wasn’t looking.) Well, Sears is selling the perfect solution for hiding your money and valuables while traveling. Dirty underwear! These specially designed drawers have a secret compartment in the fly for stashing whatever you like. But the real kicker is the strategically placed skid marks. Here’s what Sears says about the Brief Safe: “Even the most hardened burglar or most curious snoop will ‘skid’ to a screeching halt as soon as they see them. (Wouldn’t you?)” Um, yes, but I don’t go snooping through people’s stuff anyway. [$12.99, Sears]

(submitted by victoriamber)

I can’t believe Sears sells this…

Hahaha.  Something for you consider, all you travelers out there.

Jun 30 2010
She's a Curious Seoul: V is for Visa

Flights are booked. Hostels for the first month are booked. Now I have to work on getting my visas! :)

Vietnam- I’m going to order it through a travel agent on Saturday. It takes five days.

Cambodia- Order through the Internet, print, put in my passport.

Laos- I’ll have to get it through a…

Definitely, definitely get your Myanmar visa in advance.  It is easy enough to get it at any embassy in SE Asia, and I’m almost positive they don’t do VOA (unless things just changed).  They checked my passport to make sure I had one already before I could get on the plane.  I also got a Cambodian VOA overland and it was completely fine.  Laos you are fine as long as you aren’t going overland from Cambodia :)  I just think it’s too much of a hassle going to embassies and being without a passport for a few days when you don’t really need to.  Just make sure you have enough USD at each entry-point!
Jun 18 2010
fuckyeahglobetrotters: Maldives By working, all I’m realizing is that I hate working.  I used to think, what’s the point in wasting your vacation by going far away to a beautiful beach?  Beaches are beaches are beaches.  but I would really consider killing someone in order for me to be there, at a beautiful beach far away from Korea right now*. *Summer intensives are starting soon, and my school renamed them “Creative Workshops” instead.  As if that makes it any better for the teachers who have to work longer hours or the kids who have to go to longer English classes during their summer vacation.  I hate Korean parents who buy into this crap.

fuckyeahglobetrotters:

Maldives

By working, all I’m realizing is that I hate working.  I used to think, what’s the point in wasting your vacation by going far away to a beautiful beach?  Beaches are beaches are beaches.  but I would really consider killing someone in order for me to be there, at a beautiful beach far away from Korea right now*.

*Summer intensives are starting soon, and my school renamed them “Creative Workshops” instead.  As if that makes it any better for the teachers who have to work longer hours or the kids who have to go to longer English classes during their summer vacation.  I hate Korean parents who buy into this crap.

Apr 5 2010
I’m already thinking about where I want to go for my week off in July.  I had been thinking about the Philippines or perhaps seeing more of Taiwan, but then I was Wikitravel-ing this morning and ran across Java.  Holy crap.  Volcanoes, jungles, beaches, huge old Buddhist temples, wild animals, yes yes yes.  There are too many places I want to go!

I’m already thinking about where I want to go for my week off in July.  I had been thinking about the Philippines or perhaps seeing more of Taiwan, but then I was Wikitravel-ing this morning and ran across Java.  Holy crap.  Volcanoes, jungles, beaches, huge old Buddhist temples, wild animals, yes yes yes.  There are too many places I want to go!

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Feb 18 2010

you know you’ve roughed it when…

They show pictures of a prison on the news, and you think, “wow, those cells are really nice”.

Way better than half the places I stayed in SE Asia.

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Jan 20 2010
“ Can we get more air-sick bags over here? Something I had the misfortune of hearing on one of my flights.
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Jan 9 2010
The 31 Places to Go in 2010 (NYT link)

3. Seoul
Forget Tokyo. Design aficionados are now heading to Seoul. They have been drawn by the Korean capital’s glammed-up cafes and restaurants, immaculate art galleries and monumental fashion palaces like the sprawling outpost of Milan’s 10 Corso Como and the widely noted Ann Demeulemeester store — an avant-garde Chia Pet covered in vegetation.
And now Seoul, under its design-obsessed mayor, Oh Se-hoon, is the 2010 World Design Capital. The title, bestowed by a prominent council of industrial designers, means a year’s worth of design parties, exhibitions, conferences and other revelries. Most are still being planned (go to wdc2010.seoul.go.kr for updates). A highlight will no doubt be the third annual Seoul Design Fair (Sept. 17 to Oct. 7), the city’s answer to the design weeks in Milan and New York, which last year drew 2.5 million people and featured a cavalcade of events under two enormous inflatable structures set up at the city’s Olympic stadium.
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Jan 7 2010
Noisy Korean Tourists Overseas Irk Foreigners (link)

NONE of this surprises me.

Foreigners are most turned off by noisy Koreans during their overseas trips, especially inside airplanes and in hotel rooms, the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) said Wednesday.
Many also said that Koreans need to pay more attention to the customs, culture and people of the countries they are visiting.
They include refraining from shouting or talking loudly at airports, adherence to in-flight safety regulations, not engaging in late-night card games and drinking in hotel rooms.
Dec 27 2009
“ New TSA regs for all international flights entering the USA, via Air Canada:

Only one carry-on bag per person. PERIOD. Computer? Clothing? Books? All in one small bag, son.

No leaving your seat in the last hour of your flight. Passengers cannot get up to stretch their legs, go to the restroom or to assist children/elderly/the disabled in the last hour of flying.

Passengers may not carry anything in their hands or in their laps in the last hour of flights. Passengers reading books, listening to an ipod, using a laptop or doing any other activity in the last hour of flight will face criminal action if they don’t cease and desist. That’s not a joke.

Negev Rock City: Your Flight Experience Will Now… Suck. (via sexartandpolitics)

>.<

Sucks to live abroad and have to fly home with this.  You would not believe how easy it is to fly outside of the US if you never have.  I guess I understand the need to prevent terrorist activity, but flying here is such a nightmare.
Nov 12 2009

things I’ve gotten used to in the past two weeks of traveling

- Cold showers
- Putting on bug spray twice a day
- Being yelled and/or stared at (in a creepy way) by strangers
- Never knowing what day it is
- Big bugs. Like when I was laying in my bed on the two overnight trains I took in Vietnam, and I would turn over and see a couple long creatures crawling on the wall right by my head. Or a small cockroach scuttle under the bed next to me. Lovely.
- Going to bed and waking up at obscenely early hours. 8pm bedtime? No problem!
- Drinking everything out of a bottle or can to avoid any ice or bad water.
- Never being able to correctly determine where people are from based on their accents. “Um, New Zealand?” “I’m British, you silly yank!”
- Constantly shaking my head “no” while walking anywhere, in response to the herds of motorbike and tuk-tuk drivers offering rides at every corner.

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