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Trippin’

The folks are vacationing in Asia right now and they send email recaps of their days. What a difference those recaps are from the ones I receive from friends on vacation. My parents are up at the crack of dawn while my friends go to bed at the crack of dawn. My parents visit botanical gardens while my friends visit beer gardens. My parents vomit from local viral infections while my friends vomit from local, well, beer gardens. Mom and Dad’s remedy for illness is to skip the day’s tours and rest while my friends’ remedy is to switch to weed for the day.

Very different trips indeed.

Most of the pictures my parents send are scenery shots. I don’t know why they bother. No matter where you are in the world or what you’re looking at, some professional photographer has probably taken a better picture of it. I tend to prefer my friends’ photos, which also show scenery… in the background, but it’s usually easy to miss since the foreground often involves some sort of nudity or potentially illegal activities (I’m a comic- how classy do you expect my friends to be)?

In the latest email, Mom mentioned dining with a couple named Marge and Berwyl. She didn’t say much about them, but I can only guess Marge has a delicious recipe for apple pie while Berwyl can recommend a good tax man. Dinner with Marge and Berwyl surely involves such topics of conversation as home remedies for hemorrhoids and the war in Iraq (Berwyl’s pro, Marge goes along with whatever Berwyl believes). After a pleasant evening, the group probably made plans to visit local shrines together the next day.

My friends also meet new people on vacation, but whatever names they’re given are likely to be either fake or “stage names.” A night out with “Iceman” and “Roxy” probably involves a heated debate on the proper way to roll and some mention of whether any of them have “done something like this before.” After a pleasant evening, “Iceman” and “Roxy” probably slipped out under cover of darkness with half my friends’ belongings in hand, never to be seen again.

I’m not saying that one style of vacationing is better than the other since both my friends and parents thoroughly enjoy their trips. The bonus for me is that I get to hear very different perspectives of the same destinations. But I have to admit, one style’s recap is a tad more fun to live vicariously through.

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