RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)

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GROUP TOUR PERSONALITIES: THE WINDBAG

The windbag never stops talking. To fellow travellers. To the tour guide and director. To anyone fortunate to have been born with ears. Then those long-complicated questions with a microphone in hand on the tour bus. Digging into the minutiae and the weeds with questions of importance only to the windbag but often sadly amplified over the bus microphone for all to hear. The private windbag goes painfully public. A windbag may be found amongst a group of friends so they feel more comfortable yakking away which is all the more humane as they are not amplified by the bus microphone.

Particularly toxic is the pompous windbag convincing fellow travellers of their importance and/or intelligence. Modesty is a dirty word to this category of windbag. And with a bus microphone in hand look out!

There are no known treatments for the compulsive windbag but victims may protect themselves with noise cancelling headphones.

Next the tour director

Published by Robert K Stephen (CSW)

Robert K Stephen writes about food ,drink, travel, film, and lifestyle issues. He also has published serialized novels "Life at Megacorp", "Virus # 26, "Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog" and "The Penniless Pensioner" Robert was the first associate member of the Wine Writers’ Circle of Canada. He also holds a Mindfulness Certification from the University of Leiden and the University of Toronto. Be it Spanish cured meat, dried fruit, BBQ, or recycled bamboo place mats, Robert endeavours to escape the mundane, which is why he has established this publication. His motto is, "Have Story, Will Write."

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