{"id":2501,"date":"2013-01-13T23:45:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T06:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=2501"},"modified":"2013-01-13T23:45:04","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T06:45:04","slug":"the-travel-and-adventure-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=2501","title":{"rendered":"The Travel And Adventure Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

January 12, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s been pretty damn cold here and it’s been raining on and off for the last couple of weeks, so I’ve been out of the water.<\/p>\n

I also have to sell some blood so I can buy this year’s fishing license and lobster report card.<\/p>\n

The travel and adventure show<\/p>\n

One of my old friends invited me to the “Travel and Adventure Show” at the Long Beach Convention Center; both of us like travel and I’m still looking for my next diving adventure.<\/p>\n

Professional Debriefer Paul came along to stockpile free pens and other giveaways. <\/p>\n

The Travel and Adventure Show<\/p>\n

It was crowded, and there were a lot of California spots represented – Kern County, Napa Valley, San Diego and others.<\/p>\n

There was a big diving section at the Malaysia booth…<\/p>\n

Dive Malaysia<\/p>\n

I ended up stopping at the American Association For Nude Recreation booth…<\/p>\n

Nude Resort<\/p>\n

I asked the guy, “So if I go to your resort, is it going to be like the Bally Fitness commercials?”<\/p>\n

“What do you mean,” the guy asked.<\/p>\n

“I see a lot of young women in their 20’s in your ads, but if I go there, I’m assuming it’ll be filled with fat women in their 40’s and 50’s?”<\/p>\n

He laughed, “Well, all types of people show up, come and see.”<\/p>\n

I didn’t inquire about diving there.<\/p>\n

Jordan was represented, which is another country on my bucket list…<\/p>\n

Travel Jordan<\/p>\n

The King of Jordan in an avid SCUBA diver, who even sunk a few tanks as artificial reefs, and I was assured that this Muslim country does have beer.<\/p>\n

The Philippines booth also showed many dive spots…<\/p>\n

Dive the Philippines<\/p>\n

My Albanian friend Idit has recommended diving the Philippines because it is beautiful, and cheaper than Albania.<\/p>\n

I was also told by a travel company, who asked to remain nameless, that they could “refer me to a third party” if I wished to dive in Cuba.<\/p>\n

Toy Surfer
\nTethered surfing on an artificial wave.<\/em><\/p>\n

Lots of kiddie rides…<\/p>\n

Water Balls
\nFloating hamster balls.<\/em><\/p>\n

Bungee ride
\nThe bungee bounce.<\/em><\/p>\n

There was also a zip line and rock climbing available.<\/p>\n

The Malaysia booth put on a show…
\nMalaysian Show<\/p>\n

Dancing Girl
\nYoung hot chicks in barely any clothes entertained the adults.<\/em><\/p>\n

Many lectures were offered, too…<\/p>\n

Lectures at the Travel Show<\/p>\n

I was wearing my “Albania” baseball cap; a couple people asked me where the Albania booth was.<\/p>\n

They were disappointed when I told them that Albania wasn’t represented.<\/p>\n

Also, stopping by the Ethiopia booth when I inquired about diving, I was told “Ethiopia no longer has a coast, so there’s no diving in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n

No longer has a coast?<\/p>\n

Seems that the coast is now Eritrea – it is it’s own country and as the guy in the Ethiopia booth told me, “Somaliland is safer, Eritrea is shit.”<\/p>\n

I was surprised to see Tijuana represented, and was told, “Many things have improved and it is very safe there.”<\/p>\n

It was an interesting exposition, but didn’t have any great travel deals.<\/p>\n

Diving in Poland is still my goal this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

January 12, 2013 It’s been pretty damn cold here and it’s been raining on and off for the last couple of weeks, so I’ve been out of the water. I also have to sell some blood so I can buy this year’s fishing license and lobster report card. One of my old friends invited me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,9,27,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}