I haven’t read the book, so this is actually a review of a San Jose Mercury News review of this new book - The Guide to Politically Incorrect Travel - whose writer Sharri Moore is a corporate travel agent in Alameda at an agency called ‘Fly Me to the Moon Travel’.

Could this be anymore wacky? Yes, it could, because the book, it seems, contains stuff like this - Places like the Wigwam Hotel, with rooms shaped like teepees, Climax, the gleefully tacky drive-through strip club in Pennsylvania and the statue of Romeo the killer elephant about to stomp a clown to death in Wisconsin all add a touch of moral ambiguity to any road trip.

Here’s the Amazon link for the book. I don’t have much to say about the book, considering I haven’t read it, but regarding the subject matter - She does have a point, actually. When you embark on Anaheim vacations with the kids, it feels like you’re a part of this giant Wall-E kind of conspiracy, where everybody is doing the same thing, like it or not.

Don’t get me wrong, I got nothing against Disneyland, but the overwhelming pressure to blend in as a family traveler, staying at the same handful of family friendly Anaheim hotels, and visiting the same rides, eating fried chicken at Mrs. Knott’s Chicken Dinner restaurant… I mean, C’mon. Where’s the thrill, and the excitement of discovery? The exilaration of just eating something so tasty at an unknown diner on the road that you remember it all your life.

Posted on August 5th, 2008 by Thomas
Filed under: USA