I was writing a long diatribe, but gave up halfway through in
disgust.  Suffice it to say that boorish, racist (etc etc) Americans
deserve to be taken advantage off if they dare to leave the
comfortable land of Walmart and McDonalds.  They might A) learn some
manners for next time (unlikely)  B) decide to stay home and vacation
at Disneyland next time (very beneficial for the remaining world
travellers).
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Kevin Innes

Where have the years gone? Why, into the usual vices of the romantic
idealist: into sloth and melancholy, each feeding upon and
reinforcing the other, into love and marriage and the begetting of
children, into the strenuous maneuvers of earning a living without
living to earn, into travel and play and music and drink and talk and
laughter, into saving the world - but saving the world was only a
hobby. Into watching cloud formations float across our planetary
skies. But mostly into sloth and melancholy and I don't regret a
moment of it.

-Edward Abbey.