Travel tips...

So, it's officially summer now. How's that going for you? Do you have big summer vacation plans? When I was a kid, we used to take vacations up and down the east coast. We'd go hiking along various paths on the Appalachian trail. We visited Hershey, PA, Williamsburg, and Mount Vernon, just to name a few sites. However, my dad wasn't always a big planner. He liked to wing vacations. Go where the adventure takes you, so to speak. He would sort of arrange to get us to a place, and then not really do much beyond that. Also, his idea of luxury accommodations was the Motel 6. And if he couldn't get a room in one, well, then we slept in the car. Which we did more than once. There was even a drug bust in one of the parking lots we'd parked in. And finally, Mom put her foot down. Dad didn't want to make reservations, because he didn't want to be so pinned down, and Mom refused to sleep in the car anymore, and well, that was the end of summer vacations.

It's beautiful how they can really bring families together, isn't it?

However, maybe your family isn't such a mess. Maybe you've got something all sorted out. Oh, maybe you're going on a cruise! Because that's easy. All the food and accommodations are right there! No thinking required. But you're a responsible traveler, so you take to the internet to look up safety and security information before boarding. And that's when you stumble across this:

Yes, please, tell me what that is. 

Can you see it? It took me a while. Here's a closer look:

No, seriously. What is it? 

My favorite part is that Security is spelled incorrectly TWICE, as though they copied and pasted the question in the FAQ, and then could only get it right in the answer. It's like a trick question! Except the trick's on them. Oops.

I feel confident the U.S. Border Security Act is not thrilled about being defamed in this manner. It just wants you to travel safely, after all. Safe travels for all you summer vacationers out there!

May you never have to sleep in the car.

(Thanks to MLW for this submission!)