On my twitter account @BobCarriesOn I recently wrote:
Travel company to offer epic Afghanistan adventure tour in footsteps of guy who sweeps area for landmines
I assumed that anyone who read it would know I was kidding, in part because I am kidding just about every time I Tweet something, or post on Facebook or Google+ or write for this blog, which is titled, helpfully, I would like to think: Bob Carries On – Bob Payne’s Travel Humor.
At least one reader, however, took me seriously enough, it seems, to ask for a link to the travel company.
Perhaps the reader was a regular follower, and was paying me back in kind. Or perhaps he is a more mild-mannered iteration of those readers who have demanded, with a sense of outrage and challenge, that I produce my sources. Tweets/Posts they have railed against include:
Fashion Week Cruise ends in disaster when ship sinks but passengers refuse to wear off-the-rack life jackets
Claim of discovering previously un-contacted Amazon tribe dismissed after some tribe members found to have Wi-Fi.
To enhance on-board experience, first North Korean cruise ship considers installing working toilets.
In victory for environmentalists, Serengeti highway plans scrapped; subway line to be built instead.
In effort to get passengers to pay more attention to lifeboat drill, cruise line dresses crew as Somali pirates.
It’s only coincidence, I am sure, that the majority of these have come from people one might likely encounter on a cruise ship. I do, however, like to think of Bob Carries On as a full-service site, so in that spirit I have included a link for readers interested in Afghan Adventure Travel.
I spent a few years there. Had enough adventure.