THE
ROAD LESS TRAVELED. THE RIGHT TRIP FOR YOU.
Here
are some travel suggestions:
For
the aging
extreme sport athlete (quoting The Globe & Mail, 10 June): After a
grueling overland drive, relax in your luxury tent and enjoy a gourmet meal
kept fresh in your battery-powered mini fridge. Wow! And I didn’t even know
that you could use luxury in the
same sentence as tent!
For
the nomad: Retrace Jeanette Walls’
childhood trek with her alcoholic father and bohemian mother, moving from
Arizona to California, Nevada, West Virginia, and finally the tenements of New
York. Sorry, no luxury tent. Sleep on car seats, under the desert sky, in
cardboard boxes, and three to a bed. No gourmet food either. Root through garbage
bin. Sounds a bit harsh? Not if you listen to Walls. According to the Vancouver
Sun (12 April), it made her the luckiest person in the world.
For
the liberal arts student & job
seeker: Enroll at the University of the Fraser Valley, where history
students explore and map abandoned mining shafts on nearby Sumas Mountain.
According to university officials, those activities convinced employers of the
usefulness of an undergraduate education in liberal arts (Globe, June
10). Oh wait, this isn’t an article. It’s an Information Feature -- the stuff that used to be called advertisement.
Discover
your inner duck: Sprout webbed arms
and legs with a specially paneled nylon suit, jump over a cliff and surf the
wind. It’s called wingsuit-flying and is guaranteed to make onlookers exclaim:
It’s a duck…It’s a flying squirrel…It’s Superman!
For
the autonomous driver: Get a car
enhanced with Mobileye. It’s capable of driving at freeway speeds, but can’t
make lane changes. And I thought only old codgers did that – crawling along, preferably on the outermost
lane at or slightly below the speed limit. With Mobileye you too can block the
road and save your fellow drivers from speeding tickets. The traffic jam assist
feature will get you through stop and go situations, but will require drivers to keep
their hands on the steering wheel (NY Time, 9 June). Bummer. And I had
planned on rolling down the window and shouting: Look, Ma, no hands.
Nothing
here that tempts you? You are a couch
potato? Okay, then just watch comedian Patton Oswalt on YouTube. He doesn’t
get off the couch during his performance. Perfect match, perfect trip, no?
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