{"id":643,"date":"2018-01-10T22:37:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T22:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/?p=643"},"modified":"2018-01-10T22:37:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T22:37:13","slug":"brendas-travel-guide-extraordinaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/archives\/643","title":{"rendered":"Brenda\u2019s Travel Guide Extraordinaire"},"content":{"rendered":"

I won\u2019t be traveling anywhere in the near future (or the far future, for that matter). But you<\/em> might be\u2014and that\u2019s why I\u2019ve taken time out of my busy schedule of wine drinking and cat petting to create this helpful guide for travelers. You\u2019re welcome.<\/p>\n

Hate long plane flights?<\/strong> Scotland offers the shortest commercial flight in the world. It travels 1.7 miles from Westray to Papa Westray, and takes just 53 seconds. Unfortunately, you\u2019ll have to pack your own lunch\u2014the airline doesn\u2019t serve meals on that flight.<\/p>\n

Love picnics?<\/strong> Antarctica\u2014despite its name\u2014does not have a single native species of ant. You\u2019ll need thermal undies, but at least you won\u2019t have to share your potato salad with the little bastards.<\/p>\n

Want to gaze at pyramids?<\/strong> Then head to Sudan. While Egypt has a measly 138 pyramids, Sudan boasts an impressive 255.<\/p>\n

Obsessed with Christmas?<\/strong> There are three towns in the U.S. called Santa Claus\u2014one in Indiana, one in Georgia and one in Arizona. If you drink enough coffee, you can drive through all three in just 66 hours (assuming you don\u2019t stop for bathroom breaks).<\/p>\n

Love a challenge?<\/strong> Scotland wins, again. Their official animal is the unicorn\u2014and you\u2019ll be pretty popular, there, if you can spot one.<\/p>\n

Hate stepping on gum?<\/strong> You\u2019ll want to head straight to Singapore, where it\u2019s illegal to import, sell or spit out chewing gum. People caught breaking Singapore\u2019s anti-gum laws face fines as high as $100,000, plus two years in jail.<\/p>\n

Want to confuse your travel partners?<\/strong> Take them to Bulgaria and ask the locals a ton of questions. People in Bulgaria move their heads up and down to say \u201cno,\u201d and shake their heads side to side to say \u201cyes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t mind a little traffic?<\/strong> For some inexplicable reason, the 33,000 residents of San Marino\u2014one of the smallest countries in the world\u2014have crammed 42,000 cars into their 23 square miles of space.<\/p>\n

And if you\u2019re considering vacationing in Canada, be forewarned\u2014apologizing will not<\/em> get you out of trouble if you break any of their laws. In 2009, The Apology Act<\/strong> was passed in Canada. This act specifies that an apology is inadmissible in court, as it is considered merely an expression of sympathy or regret, not an admission of guilt.<\/p>\n

Sorry\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I won\u2019t be traveling anywhere in the near future (or the far future, for that matter). But you might be\u2014and that\u2019s why I\u2019ve taken time out of my busy schedule of wine drinking and cat petting to create this helpful guide for travelers. You\u2019re welcome. Hate long plane flights? Scotland offers the shortest commercial flight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-bits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}