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> You're going to get blasted by 100 degree heat, power-wafted by smells of the most amazing street food one minute and an open sewer the next, assaulted with m
by Zelphyr 10y ago
> You're going to get blasted by 100 degree heat, power-wafted by smells of the most amazing street food one minute and an open sewer the next, assaulted with music from a thousand bars, and crammed into a tiny room overlooking it all with a fan that doesn't work.
To each his/her own I guess but that doesn't sound appealing at all.
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- kasey_junk 10y agoYou can replace that sentence with similar ones about hiking the AP trail, riding your bike from Portland to San Diego or building the biggest slip n slide in your neighborhood and the authors argument holds though.
- Zelphyr 10y agoI agree but the author seems to be very specific about traveling to Southeast Asia. Or Africa first, if its May/June. I actually like your ideas better!
- emodendroket 10y agoWell obviously whatever he did is the only sensible thing and if you don't do exactly the same you are a sucker.
- technofiend 10y agoMost of the time I'm with the comedienne that said "Roughing it is when room service answers on the second ring". What you described sounds like hell. I would visit for the street food and then Uber it back to the .