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South Bay Accent - Jun/Jul 2016

You’ll meet them all soon enough in these snippets of summer vacations from hell: the newlyweds so sunburned they were forced to spend their honeymoon motionless while their blistered skin peeled off layer by layer; the father and son who suffered from painful jellyfish stings; the climber who succumbed to severe cramps brought on by altitude sickness; and the adventurous foodie who got food poisoning after sampling some native cuisine off the beaten track. They, and others like them whose vacations came undone by lack of preparation or poor decisions, form a club to which you don’t want to belong. Its members have all seen the expectations of a splendid vacation transform into a satanic sojourn replete with blisters, bites and acute intestinal distress. They share the emotional and physical scars of tourists who took the wrong turn, ate the wrong food or surfed the wrong wave and wished they’d never left home. June/July 2016 69


South Bay Accent - Jun/Jul 2016
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