50 Ways to Live Large
#33. Buy a one-way ticket* to a country** where you don't speak the language***--and stay until you learn it.
~From the January 2006 Outside magazine^
* I actually bought a round-trip ticket, but my return was 6 months later. Better to buy the ticket while you still have money unless you want to get stuck somewhere.
** Mexico
*** Does "Yo quiero Taco Bell" count?
^ Thanks to the Polar Bear King for bringing this to my attention. Don't ask me why a 12-year-old boy was reading Outside. He's standing next to me watching me type this. He says, "I was bored."
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