Travel Tips: Drinking

I'm not sure how many people are thinking about summer vacation now. In the United States, soon the spring semester is done. Then a lot of students go back home and travel their favorite places.

They meet new friends. Also they start working at companies and get some new fellows. In addition they drink and take a girl to home..? All over the friendships happen in next some months. Anyway, friendly drinking season comes soon.

However, wait... If you start your pregame earlier, you maybe get a lot of drinks at the same night. Alcohol is one of the materials killing people.

Here are some for mad drinkers:

1. Identify Your Locations
If you travel in the world, you can't drink in some places. In California, people can't drink liquors in some public places. In Sydney, you should not drink in your hotel room. In Islam countries, drinking liquors are strictly prohibited for people(without some bars for travelers). If you don't know the rules, you may have some troubles in your destinations.You need a research before you start traveling.

2. Take Care of Your Money

This is for the United States. If you have a lot of money to spend in bars and nightclubs, they may cost a lot. The cover charge is normally more than $20-50 for each nightclub. Even you don't drink at the place, you need to pay a lot. If you order a bottle of champagne, it may cost you more than $500. (Every destinations has different cases.)

3. Don't Drink Too Much
When you simply drink too much, you have a signal in your minds. If you drink more than it, you may puke, become crazy and don't remember anything. It's a problem for the night. Also if you drive a car then, maybe you have a serious car accident. If you didn't have a condom when you have a sex, you maybe have HIV, or face an unexpected pregnancy.

4. Sugar High
This is crazy. I don't think you face sugar high when you drink. However, if you drink a lot of bottles of beers, sweet cocktails, and soft drinks, you take a lot of carbohydrate including sugar for your drinks. This is not good for your health. If you drink everyday, you may get diabetes for these. (If you have some sicknesses like "Hypercholesterolemia," you maybe need a talk with your home doctor before you get drunk.)


5. Water, but Water
When you get drunk, you needs pure water a lot. Alcohol lets water in our body excrete. Also when you dance on the floor, talk a lot with fellows, and have a sex with a partner, your feelings are always thirsty and dry. Please get water then, and fill the pure fresh water for your bodies.

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I like drinking and sometimes get a bar or nightclub. Recently, I started my fitness too. I reduced my body weight a little, and become a little slender. Now I can't drink like before, and sometimes fall in sleep when I drink too much. This is not fun, but a good sign for my health and money. If you have a habit to drink everyday, you may have some breaks. Decide how many days you can drink and you can break, please enjoy better social lives.

"Swimming Pools" (2012)

by Kendrick Lamar

In the party places, all people became crazy. Then, normally, people divides for some groups. One becomes very open, and one becomes very reasonable. When you get a group, do you really enjoy the party? If you think so, you can switch your group. Maybe you can be an animal, and also become a human. Please think about your situation, and be happy and enjoy for the joy.

Travel Tips: Coins

If you have traveled abroad, you may have experiences of coins. Normally, banks don't exchange any foreign coins. If we have coins a lot, how to do for them?

1. Keep the Change for the Next Travel
If you frequently travel the areas or countries, you can keep them for the next travel. They are especially useful for the public transportation.

2. Give Friends as Souvenirs
This is also a common way. Foreign coins are rare in many countries. If coins are not strange as souvenirs, you can give away.

3. Keep in Albums
You can also keep them in your albums with photos. It will be a good memory for each travel.

In the United States, quarters are a little special for everyone. Every year, the Federal Reserve System(FRS) release some special quarters that specialized for each states in the United States. Some travelers try to collect for all states. Some travelers keep for their destinations.

"Money" by Pink Floyd (1973)

"Money" is the monster in travel. You need money to get the destination. If you are in Las Vegas, you may have a chance to get a big money. In this case, if you don't bet, you don't have chance to get the money. Well, how much can you spend? The balance is the biggest concern. It makes your travel miserable and also impressive.

If I get a huge amount of money here now, I want to learn some years and want to travel all over the United States once. It's just a dream? or should I try some lotteries?

Travel Tips: Internet Radio

Before 2000s, listening to the international broadcasting was very difficult because world broadcasting stations only provided their programs for some specific areas with shortwaves. Now mostly they have turned into the Internet. Therefore, people can listen radio programs on time in the world.

Naturally, the mass-media is for everyone. They provide a lot of daily information for native people. Especially, popular stations in town provide useful information for travelers too. Popular stations take place some joyful events in town. They talk about them. Also, they talk about their value and culture too. They are worth listening.

In some countries, these information is not only for mother tongue speakers, but for majority of people too. Therefore, in some multi-lingual countries like the United States, many cities have multiple language stations. Some international stations like BBC World Service has also multi-lingual programs such as English, Arabic, Chinese, Spanish etc.

"How to find the stations for my destinations?"

There are some simple ways to listen to these kind of international radios.

Use iTunes ( http://www.itunes.com/ )
[Apps: Win/Mac/iOS]

iTunes is one of the very popular music players. We, normally, store our favorite music, and buy some apps through it. Now please launch it, and select "Music" on your PC or Mac. It has "Radio." You can find some specific stations if you know the station names.

Use TuneIn Radio ( http://www.tunein.com/ )
[Apps: Win/Mac/iOS/Android/Kindle/Web]

This is my recommendation. If you don't know any radio stations in your destination, you can try "By Location." If you know some specific city names, you can try the search box. TuneIn Radio provides their app for Brackberry too.

Visit Stations' Homepage
This is the simplest way to get their information. However, directly, some stations don't provide their program streams. Some stations also don't internationally provide. If you need to figure out about the local information on their homepage, this is very good way too.

UPDATE: Add "iHeart Radio" for one more example.

Use iHeart Radio ( http://www.iheartradio.com/ )
[Apps: iOS/Android/Kindle/Web]

This is also the Internet radio service. They provide some specific functions such as stations for artists. Also you can try to search by the specific names of your favorite stations.

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I like to listen to the international programs. Especially, some stations provide with very proper pronunciations of languages. I also like to listen to some my born town information on the Internet radio too. These ways may be good for everyone.

"Wild World" (1993)

by Mr. Big

There are a lot of reasons to travel. Some are with their businesses. Some are trying to figure out about this world. Some may try a sentimental journey. Some are trying to escape from their enemies. There is no wrong reason to travel, but there are motivations. Is your motivation right? It always depends on you and also people who surrounds you. If you have a "right" person who respects you, your travel must be one of the most important experiences on your life.