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Scott Laird - Travel Journalist

@abfabskylife

Travel Writer Condé Nast Traveler, Fodors, TravelPulse, Travel Age West. Alaska/Hawai‘i Origin. Yes, I’m really 6’9”

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How To Travel To See The Internet-Famous Punch The Monkey Punch the Monkey is a popular internet meme, but here's how fans of the monkey can visit him live and in person at his zoo in Ichikawa, just outside Tokyo, Japan.

Want to maker sure Punch is ok on your own? Here’s how.

24.02.2026 18:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This Epic 20-day Antarctica Cruise Includes a Week on Board a Small Sailing Yacht A new hybrid trip from Terra Nova Expeditions allows Antarctic adventurers to sail on a larger expedition ship and a small yacht.

www.travelandleisure.com/terra-nova-e...

24.02.2026 18:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ugh, all the gays think they’re into hockey now.

28.12.2025 17:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Whenever I hear the line about the three French hens in the carol I always picture them wearing fishnets and smoking Gauloises.

25.12.2025 00:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s clear my friends have started their Christmas drinking because the memes are flooding in and they are straight 🔥🔥🔥

24.12.2025 18:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Are Cruises Returning to a Class System, Like in the Movie ‘Titanic’? Fodor's provides expert travel content worth exploring so you can dream up your next trip. The world is a weird and wonderful place—we want to show you around.

www.fodors.com/news/cruises...

23.12.2025 19:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Calif. restaurants ruined this Hawaiian dish by turning it into Chipotle The Native Hawaiian word describes cutting fish crosswise into pieces.

California restaurants ruined this Hawaii dish by turning it into Chipotle www.sfgate.com/hawaii/artic...

23.12.2025 17:55 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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a bald man is standing in front of a microphone and holding a baton . ALT: a bald man is standing in front of a microphone and holding a baton .

This episode of Celebrity Deathmatch is unreal.

05.06.2025 22:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What I wouldn’t give to see Christina Ricci star in a Tudor England costume drama.

30.05.2025 16:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Overhearing an order from someone who has clearly never been to a coffee bar before:

“Hi, do you have green tea… Cappuccino? I’ll have a chai… latte… with a shot of espresso.”

26.05.2025 17:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Not me in the Space Needle gift shop wondering how often these souvenir Space Needles need to be, erm, removed from people in the ER.

17.05.2025 22:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Can we just fix the airports and work on planes crashing?

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If only packing and unpacking burned more calories.

16.05.2025 18:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Today I’m channeling Judi Dench in Shakespeare in Love:

1. Show up
2. Do Queen shit for six and a half minutes
3. Win award

16.05.2025 15:48 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Depends on what series you’re watching. Schitt’s Creek? It gets better. Lost? It’s all downhill.

14.05.2025 13:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Sir, I hope you’re good at filing insurance claims because you have flooded my basement.”

14.05.2025 13:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Lion dance at DFW for Cathay’s Pacific’d inaugural nonstop to Hong Kong.

25.04.2025 18:12 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Guy held up boarding finding someone to swap seats to sit next to his wife on a 17 minute flight. Some people are so delightful.

19.04.2025 21:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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World class proofreading there, @hawaiianairlines.bsky.social

16.04.2025 22:06 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We used to have so many milk crates. They were so handy. Now it’s been years since I’ve seen one.

13.04.2025 18:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You sure do!

10.04.2025 22:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I love the word “overserved” because it allows me to disavow any accountability for my situation.

I didn’t *have* too much alcohol, I was *given* too much alcohol.

30.03.2025 16:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I won’t be satisfied until I see Rachel Brosnahan and Claire Foy star together in a sister caper.

30.03.2025 12:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wow

09.03.2025 08:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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a group of people gathered in a church with a cross on the wall ALT: a group of people gathered in a church with a cross on the wall

I’ll pray for you

09.03.2025 08:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

*laughs, similarly, in travel writer*

09.03.2025 08:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hello two hours in line at Customs

09.03.2025 08:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

The guy selling coffee at Casablanca Airport speaks English but I’m rather tickled he looked at me and decided I spoke French.

09.03.2025 08:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m facing a 0515 departure in a few weeks and I’m beside myself…

28.02.2025 02:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Are legal obstacles to discriminating against transgender people really the biggest problem faced by Iowans right now?

27.02.2025 23:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0