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Traveling Is Overrated (My Vacation Experience In Thailand and the Philippines)
You pay far greater in time, money, stress, health, and inconvenience than whatever you get for “expanding your horizons.”
Once a year or so I have this fight with the lizard part of my brain that inexplicably wants to go places for some reason.
“Dude bro, you never go anywhere.”
(My lizard brain, Dude Bro Guy, is a guy in cool shades wearing a Hawaiian shirt with his hat on backwards).
Me: Yeah, that’s because I hate spending money, hate flying, hate airports, hate staying in hotels, hate eating out at restaurants, and am annoyed by/hate most people.
“But dude bro, you gotta get out and see the world, man.”
Me: Literally everything about traveling is my definition of hell.
“The world, dude bro. The woooorld.”
This year Dude Bro Guy won out, and I visited Thailand on a tour, as well as a brief stopover in Manila, Philippines, which turned out to be a complete disaster. More on that later.
I’d been wanting to visit Asia for a long time. Well, I’d been wanting to get overseas period for the longest time, too. The last time I left…
