Category Archives: tourists

Everything I ever needed to know about Guatemala I learned from El Guapo

July 2, 2007 – 8:56 am

The Princess left yesterday for Guatemala, where she plans to spend three weeks learning a dialect of Spanish I will then have to deprogram when she gets back. She’ll be living with a host family in Quetzaltenango, nicknamed Xela (pronounced SHELL-a) and attending a language school.
I’ll be joining her in two weeks for a […]

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Catalina Island on fire

May 11, 2007 – 12:24 pm

As I write this, Catalina Island is burning.
Marine helicopters are fighting the blaze and rescue workers are evacuating the small, mostly tourist island located roughly 20 miles off the LA coast. The fire broke out yesterday in the hills near Avalon, the island’s only city. The photo above is a Google hybrid map […]

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Looks like I’m not the only one who hates Heelys

May 2, 2007 – 10:32 am

In January, I wrote a blog post about my disdain for tourist children who skate past me in Heelys and my subsequent envy. Seems like some like-minded person felt strongly enough about these Fucking Timmy-like creatures to send in this postcard to PostSecret. I hope I’m the one who inspired him so I […]

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It’s not the tourists we have to worry about, it’s their kids

April 12, 2007 – 9:00 am

Photo credit: matt p
We see them every spring and summer, walking around aimlessly, wearing fanny packs and holding Metro maps, clogging up our escalators and showing that familiar fear in their eyes.
As residents of the 202, 301, and (I guess) the 703, we xenophobically dread this time of year when we’ll have to share space […]

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