satire
Foreign travel is parody waiting to happen, even if you're the butt of the joke.
I Was Almost T-Boned by a Figher Jet - My Wildest Travel Story
Early in my marriage, I accompanied my husband overseas to his first duty station in Keflavik, Iceland. It was my first time living outside of the U.S., and Iceland did not disappoint. We went whale watching in Faxaflói, dog sledding on Langjokull Glacier, and chased the waves on the black sand beach.
Crystal A. WolfePublished 2 years ago in WanderLiving on Russian Time
“Listen up. This project will be completed before the end of the year or you and all of your family will be in Siberia before the end of the day scrounging for food, making snowmen for someone to talk to, and living in huts praying the polar bears don’t eat you.”
Paul SwannPublished 3 years ago in WanderThe Misuse of Pale Pink Hats
The Drums Danced $20k That’s it. I scanned every page of the little black book which I’d never seen before. What did it mean? What drums? I looked around for inspiration at a flat dusty landscape that shimmered in the heat and definitely didn’t resemble the Texas Hill Country. Off to my right a muddy river flowed sluggishly to some unknown destination.
Story of Ryan Skine
Welcome to Nowhere, Stranger Welcome to the middle of nowhere. Population; nobody important. It’s not like being poor makes you a nobody, but the richest person in this so-called town would only be able to afford a two-bedroom trailer if they saved up for a couple of months. The town was already talked about simply because there were no children to be found here. Made sense though, after all, there were no couples either. Would you want to raise children in a tiny mining town where the streets crack and the animals and bugs out number the people? Didn’t think so.
Timothy A RowlandPublished 3 years ago in WanderThe Story of the Valley
1. None of this was her idea. The California clan is not trustworthy. The whole family is questionable, especially the Southern ones. They create fairytale princesses who never grow up into women. They perfect make-believe movie stars built of real people who are frequently suicidal and anorexic. They cheat you out of dreams you haven’t even had yet. They’re practically vampires. They cash in people’s futures for fifteen minutes of fame or one good hit. They can devour the strong as well as the weak, but they prefer the lucky.
Samani DonnPublished 3 years ago in WanderOnly in Florida
Some of the jobsites that my fiancé and I work on are in some pretty remote areas that are deep in the woods with red dirt roads. You see some pretty interesting houses and yards back in those woods. The most interesting we’ve seen, by far, was a series of 10 double wide trailers attached to each other into a makeshift mansion. They were attached end to end, side to side and end to side. They were even stacked on top of each other. Oh the questions I had for the builder. Is that duct tape that's holding them together water tight? How many rooms are there? Stairs or ladders? Most importantly, why?
Anton Mathias HeftPublished 3 years ago in WanderWinter Fly Fishing
Well ladies and gentle folk, it's that time of year again. Yes. Frozen lines, frostbitten fingers, negative flows, and even less bites. As anyone in the fly fishing community will tell you, the winter months are either the best or the worst. They're the best if you are a guide and get paid to take clients out to catch nothing for $600, and they're the worst if you're literally anyone else.
Scumbag Tourists
Everybody knows that when you're a tourist at any destination for the first time, you have to do the standard touristy things, like take a picture holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa, or posing as the Statue of Liberty. If you don't take these overly cliché pictures, did you even visit these places? That being said, there are some cliché tourist photos that automatically deserve the caption "I am Scum."
Camping isn't for me
I Don’t go Camping Why would I voluntarily live like a dog? Okay, so I don’t like hiking or camping. I have a debilitating fear of snakes, I had a very terrifying experience as a child on my great grandparents farm and I have anxiety attacks if there’s one in my immediate vicinity.
Mae McCreeryPublished 4 years ago in WanderFremantle
From being the first sttled area in Western Australia to being the primary hub of Bars that flock 40-60 year olds that desperatlly want to feel young again to Cafe's and Restaurants that beleive they have a reasonable justification to charge an arm and leg due to "culture". Surrounded by the engulfing swan river filled with cruise ships docking the harbours every single day sending an influx of immigrants and tourists. Not saying that's a bad thing entirely, i understand the purpose and the economic turnover for Freo but the attitudes of immigrants can be quite obnoxious depending where they're from and is clear as day.
Michael GuerriniPublished 4 years ago in WanderLife Four Months Ago
Tired of the new normal? Do you miss the walls around you feeling like a safe haven instead of a medium security suburban prison? Are those little spots behind your ears sore from the cute homemade mask you paid $25 in shipping on Etsy for?
A Short Story About Paradise and Where to Find It
The Maldives come quite close to the ideal image of paradise. Even from a bird's eye view, the sometimes round, sometimes oval, sometimes elongated atolls with their snow-white beaches in the deep blue of the Indian Ocean look like a masterfully painted picture of an ideal, harmonious and peaceful world.
Markus HermannsdorferPublished 5 years ago in Wander