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Assorted Bob

Only in New Orleans

This, from an AP story about hurricane preparations in New Orleans:

“We’re choosing the best of two evils,” said Bryan Steven. “It’s either be stuck in the hotel or stuck on the road. … We’ll make it through it.”

His wife, wearing a Bourbon Street T-shirt with a lewd message, interjected: “I just don’t want to die in this shirt.”

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Prankster Bob Travel Bob

Cortez the killer

LBJ was almost taken away with the dirty dishes in Amsterdam and left behind at a restaurant in Helsinki. But neither of those experiences prepared him for his brush with death in Mexico.

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Travel Bob

You’re breaking my heart …

A little kid walks up to us while we’re eating lunch in Cabo San Lucas, and he instantly launches into a sales pitch.