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Bourdain: How to Travel

“The first thing I do is I dress for airports. I dress for security. I dress for the worst-case scenario. Comfortable shoes are important — I like Clarks desert boots because they go off and on very quickly, they’re super comfortable, you can beat the hell out of them, and they’re cheap.

In my carry-on, I’ll have a notebook, yellow legal pads, good headphones. Imodium is important. The necessity for Imodium will probably present itself, and you don’t want to be caught without it. I always carry a scrunchy lightweight down jacket; it can be a pillow if I need to sleep on a floor. And the iPad is essential. I load it up with books to be read, videos, films, games, apps, because I’m assuming there will be downtime. You can’t count on good films on an airplane.

I check my luggage. I hate the people struggling to cram their luggage in an overhead bin, so I don’t want to be one of those people.

On the plane, I like to read fiction set in the location I’m going to. Fiction is in many ways more useful than a guidebook, because it gives you those little details, a sense of the way a place smells, an emotional sense of the place. So, I’ll bring Graham Greene’s The Quiet American if I’m going to Vietnam. It’s good to feel romantic about a destination before you arrive.

I never, ever try to weasel upgrades. I’m one of those people who feel really embarrassed about wheedling. I never haggle over price. I sort of wander away out of shame when someone does that. I’m socially nonfunctional in those situations.

I don’t get jet lag as long as I get my sleep. As tempting as it is to get really drunk on the plane, I avoid that. If you take a long flight and get off hungover and dehydrated, it’s a bad way to be. I’ll usually get on the plane, take a sleeping pill, and sleep through the whole flight. Then I’ll land and whatever’s necessary for me to sleep at bedtime in the new time zone, I’ll do that.

There’s almost never a good reason to eat on a plane. You’ll never feel better after airplane food than before it. I don’t understand people who will accept every single meal on a long flight. I’m convinced it’s about breaking up the boredom. You’re much better off avoiding it. Much better to show up in a new place and be hungry and eat at even a little street stall than arrive gassy and bloated, full, flatulent, hungover. So I just avoid airplane food. It’s in no way helpful.

For me, one of the great joys of traveling is good plumbing. A really good high-pressure shower, with an unlimited supply of hot water. It’s a major topic of discussion for me and my crew. Best-case scenario: a Japanese toilet. Those high-end Japanese toilets that sprinkle hot water in your ass. We take an almost unholy pleasure in that.

I’ve stopped buying souvenirs. The first few years I’d buy trinkets or T-shirts or handcrafts. I rarely do that anymore. My apartment is starting to look like Colonel Mustard’s club. So much of it comes out of the same factory in Taiwan.

The other great way to figure out where to eat in a new city is to provoke nerd fury online. Go to a number of foodie websites with discussion boards. Let’s say you’re going to Kuala Lumpur — just post on the Malaysia board that you recently returned and had the best rendang in the universe, and give the name of a place, and all these annoying foodies will bombard you with angry replies about how the place is bullshit, and give you a better place to go.”

Anthony Bourdain: How to Travel

🤞🏾 (at Jacksonville, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEIsVCwDB3YJ0AQ3-OVYBC39S8c5k_ZkdPTfHU0/?igshid=s7b20iij9833

Tootsies second floor getting shoulder rubs 🤪🤪 #ThrowBack (at Tootsie's Cabaret Miami) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEC6bknBt6i_H3nJ65Nx41dFqZEstWzi9g7N5Y0/?igshid=1adksuoa8s0dn

Shit dead... I’m good love enjoy 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 (at Jacksonville, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDzPAtSjBy-L-tZop1HwtTDAhwjwoq80yjl4DM0/?igshid=3gpv910a84rd

This right here.... I say I don’t want to talk I don’t want to talk 😩😩 (at Jacksonville, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDzOCrMj64En3eOUBuFZZPgCI1qsGqb2WAB45o0/?igshid=xgtwjk5mkrx1

Back in the Tre #305 (at Miami Gardens Drive) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDkRBeZh8P2FG0OJbcg3suLTZi5oVVVFPD0P3g0/?igshid=1v6om27qljyun

Happy Birthday to the love of my life it’s so hard without my everything....always in my heart rest up king 👑 #DaddysGirlForever😘 (at Arlington, Jacksonville) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDh_lQCjUEcx-pd961l4Lj-o1rjEhRG4xELSjo0/?igshid=16rxfkm8v1cvf

It’s a King Birthday 🥳 🎉🎊Happy birthday Daddy I LOVVVVVEEEEEE UUUUUUUUUUUU 😘😘😘 (at Jacksonville, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDg5ohNDPVJIEKLLYa45LIorWI8wvkNEG_vSNM0/?igshid=1j7x1cxq2qllu

😉 (at Northside, Jacksonville) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDUi0WdDTnHDoFuOa9dCNQgAbGPFNBlNea0UQM0/?igshid=p8lkujy4bumx

🤞🏾 (at Jacksonville, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDSnuktjoGjcJEdTNVTXh7zRuLFbIRuWP9hulI0/?igshid=1q184w510guag

You know the vibes (at Kissimmee; Orlando, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CC101lJjck5w0kWQUTnAURTbvcUfyo1HffjNPw0/?igshid=1xk75cegatpwx

#GVO (at Aquatica Orlando) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCwVsMqDWGAHTQYrINPgxNQ3GVIGKLMsr-PEj80/?igshid=o5wpzah2h8op

at Aquatica Orlando https://www.instagram.com/p/CCwHPxqDL7akOYFB8vnpZPjod2CvdVG0gSoLNk0/?igshid=pf5fu9jocd2j

at Aquatica Orlando https://www.instagram.com/p/CCwGaq6jg_kFUTB04msJWkdzhaL8OC1ESDLrZ40/?igshid=12vufsjvbzzab

Late post recorded a month ago and forgot every Tuesday to post #TacoTuesday (at Westside 103rd) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCpP-83D2TJPPjb_PAOJvjdJSuPM7hKyj3kYMQ0/?igshid=9bcii88qne9b

11:11 🤞🏾 (at Jacksonville, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCkRpTcjVwQt_tgtfFUbllA9f1naK6QIVIolp00/?igshid=fo937kacbcl6

at Jacksonville, Florida https://www.instagram.com/p/CCkD7nrjwJY2OGSNq5CyLnFb6MQPQuc5dPFFfQ0/?igshid=1uqjowdzp1zeq

at Jacksonville, Florida https://www.instagram.com/p/CCj0RpyjAab05UL4Qy704OsSBIYLsraA0z0Luc0/?igshid=e2u1vlleidnk

Back at it #WatchThis https://www.instagram.com/p/CCh_KdZjJe5dDCN3Z7LK4uIA5fZXnscZGtqcFM0/?igshid=16opoec83c5eu

He ready (at Orange Park Mall) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCPbBQPDOwZHEGOik4hEoCB-inFIw4E7FXzrnk0/?igshid=wd3qhryt1ltk

at Cirque Italia https://www.instagram.com/p/CCPZrEhjdqbo0B7Fw4ppCqLNoh5BmEndoelXqA0/?igshid=fhx67oymib6u

We out chere #4thOfJuly2020 (at Orange Park Mall) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCPSB6sDNnJyllrGnMtuf5FbcwWVRUQ0dg9QV00/?igshid=ar7oy2m1ir7e

Out with my guy Dre Dre Babi (at Orange Park Mall) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCPR4EMj13_ERxpPlBEqxFo_0CsZPuIHrHLojw0/?igshid=z644mgrwfiju

Like it’s really been 8 years today..shit ain’t been the same I’m not the same everything is wrong I will never stopped needing you but I need my best friend so much right now even when you know how much someone means to you you never really know until they gone this man was my everything and my only I’m so fucked up right now this shit just keeps getting worse every year please come back 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 #INeedMyDaddy #DaddysGirlForever https://www.instagram.com/p/CCIBEcuj8WYmBiNNV-bF-TzSrIGpdu71n1bJa40/?igshid=1332u56k2iyoy

🤞🏾 (at Jacksonville, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBrnxS8Dgvr3yIy-48WCFh4tiVynjdkaJhOEgo0/?igshid=enmlax61ao9b

Nah I ain’t hang up 🥰😜😜 #GiveMeWhatYouGot (at Bed) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBkm9b9DniKiqHpI9tgf-1A0gEi0tsEYdEFeWg0/?igshid=1pv0085yi86gs

🍾🎊🎉Congratulations to my beautiful niece @nekaoir she walked today I’m so sorry I couldn’t make it just know I’m super proud of you, love you 😘😘😘 that’s auntie baby #c/o2020 (at Jacksonville, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBLtB0TDHIkh9D9zFNPxBzObkyvE1GEfGqPy0g0/?igshid=w7q863rqzb21

Who’s next???? (at Jacksonville, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBKbnPEjf0nwwvMlgO9w0e-HdzVI7MZnPZHJX40/?igshid=1oip43ab320z7

at Duval County, Florida https://www.instagram.com/p/CBKPZW-jerkh7soNzg7P4v1R2UsksReHdQgpOw0/?igshid=9w6r1nkfix5w