If There Were Rules to Travel…
June 27, 2007. Here's one to post in every luxury vacation rental. If there were rules to travel, these would be them. San Francisco Chronicle travel editor John Flinn wrote a hilarious column of 24 travel rules. We're grateful to the Chicago Tribune for reprinting them, because we missed them the first time around.
Flinn is an experienced travel writer who seems to have the dream job we all want. He has also created one of the most enjoyable newspaper travel sections in the country. It's certainly not the biggest or the newsiest, but it always has some interesting tales. It's also a great resource for California travel.
Here are a few of his "rules":
3. At scenic overlooks, ancient ruins and other points of high traffic, tourists attempting to frame and focus a photograph must not keep others waiting more than five seconds.
4. Every American citizen has the constitutionally protected right to walk into any McDonald's, anywhere in the world, and use the restroom -- even without buying something.
5. Bed-and-breakfast inns are hereby prohibited from posting more than five house rules ( i.e., "Do not feed your happy-hour cheddar cubes to the tropical fish," etc.).
6. Theme park rides must offer the parents of exuberantly acquisitive children an alternative exit that doesn't pass through the gift shop.
