Yesterday, I picked up a used copy of Experimental Travel by Lonely Planet. It offers a creative (and sometimes obnoxious) list of alternative ways to travel. There is a template for each idea-- the idea itself, ingredients/tools, instructions, level of difficulty, introductory notes, and lab results. One particularly loathsome example involved a gaijin traveling around Japan wearing a horse's head, cutting in line knowing that the Japanese are too polite and non-confrontational to object.
The following, though, are intriguing. Check out the full list here.
2. Airport Tourism: Spend 24 hours at an airport.
5. Ariadne's Thread: Find a woman named Ariadne and ask her to make up a list of 10 places in her hometown to visit.
9. Blind Man's Bluff: Travel for 24 hours, blindfolded.
11. Bureaucratic Odyssey: Spend a day navigating bureaucracy in a foreign land, e.g. hang out at a government building.
13. Confluence Seeking: This is the most interesting. Find a point where a whole number of degrees latitude meets a whole number of degrees longitude. There's a whole website devoted to this.
This reminds me that I've gotta start planning my goal of visiting all 77 (approximate) consulates in San Francisco in one day (hopefully next month). It's a much more difficult task than my visiting all five Central Asian embassies in one day in DC.
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