quote of the day (September 9, 2008)

Not all international signs are quite this self-explanatory.

As most of QOTD's eagle-eyed audience has no doubt already realized, there's a new link at the top of our page. Yes - over there - on the right. Mike Klein, friend and occasional reader of QOTD, is taking the next 9 months to walk the Earth, get in adventures, like Caine in Kung Fu. He is detailing his travels in his new blog Send Money Please. It's certainly worth a visit, if for no other reason to see his (very long) flight itinerary.

All this around the world stuff (and my own exceedingly huge dancing talent) certainly puts us in the mind to post a video from "Where the Hell is Matt?". Matt is a guy who travels around the world having footage of him dancing at various world sites. The original video is a lot of fun, but his most recent one embedded below is even better - with people joining him in his dances at every stop.



Anyway, since we're in a global travel sort of mood, we'll do a couple of quotes from author/humorist Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need:

"No matter what destination these (travel) books are talking about, they’ll tell you it’s wonderful: “Even the most demanding traveler is bound to feel a warm glow after only a few days in Chernobyl..."

"The first rule of travel finance is that no matter what is going on elsewhere in the world, the dollar is always getting weaker where you are. By the time you’ve spent a couple of days in a foreign country, the natives will be blowing their noses on the dollar."