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The Mortified Podcast

213: I Need a Vacation

The Mortified Podcast

Mortified Media and Radiotopia

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Remember the excitement of your first big trip? From a school trip to the capitol to backpacking through Southeast Asia, tales of teens hit by the travel bug only to discover what bugs them about traveling.

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0:00.0

Radio Tapio.

0:04.0

From PRX.

0:11.0

My father has a meeting in Orlando and he bought tickets for us.

0:14.5

Shruthi, my mom, and my sister, Ritja.

0:17.0

Those are the people he bought tickets for.

0:21.0

When Shruthi was six, she went on a family vacation to Florida.

0:24.0

And she was so excited about it,

0:26.0

she started keeping a travel journal.

0:28.0

And when you drive in lovely Orlando,

0:30.0

I'll tell you why I call it lovely Orlando.

0:35.0

Because when you drive on the roads in Orlando,

0:37.0

or when you walk on the sidewalks in Orlando near people's houses,

0:40.0

there are so many palm trees.

0:42.0

Everything in Orlando is so nice,

0:44.0

except that it is very hot.

0:46.0

A picture of the hot sun.

0:53.0

And she got so into keeping her journal

0:55.0

that she began to write down every little detail.

0:58.0

Even the things that most travelers tend to ignore.

1:01.0

Like the inner workings of an airport terminal.

1:04.0

When we reach the airport, we went in an air link,

1:06.0

which is a mini bus.

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