When my kids were younger, they LOVED the Wiggles, and I’m not going to lie, some of their songs were just downright catchy even for us grownups. For some reason the Wiggles came up in conversation at our house the other day, and it reminded me of a travel related clip that always stuck in my mind for its complete absurdity.
Since this is the Internet, of course it’s already on YouTube 🙂
The clip comes from the full-length Wiggles video “Space Dancing”, from 2003 and provides us with in my opinion the worst travel advice I’ve ever heard
If you can’t hear the video (or are too captivated by the creepy looking animation), the Wiggles are lost in space, and Greg the Yellow Wiggle gives the sage advice:
Captain… keep flying straight. We’re bound to get back on course if we just keep going straight
Uhhhh…. what? That strikes me as some pretty bad travel advice! If you’re lost, going in the same direction you’ve been going seems like just about the LEAST likely way to get back on course!
But it got me thinking there’s got to be some other bad travel advice out there so I thought I’d throw it out to my readers – what’s the worst travel advice you’ve ever heard?
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Funny, they must have written the code for Malaysian airlines.
Worst travel advice ever? Hmmmmm….. Daraius at MMS had a doooozy yesterday, hawking a Chase Sapphire card and how wonderful it would be to use them at Ritz Carlton “beach” properties in the Middle East — and he had the nerve to promote Bahrain.
Sigh, gee, come see where the Arab Spring died, come spend your money supporting corrupt Saudi backed dictatorships, pretend you’re in an Agrabah-like paradise…. 😉 (before somebody bombs it next year)
and then delete any comments pointing out the utter comedy of pushing a hotel in Bahrain ….. post blackbird friday.
Yup, worst travel advice I e’r saw.
Yeah that’s pretty bad!
worst advice… clicking through to read this stuff. I read your headline and was expecting to see some real advice, not a kids song. Yes, as a grandparent, I have heard this before. It is a kids song. And I wasted time clicking through.
“Forget the 9-5, just go! Travel and forget everything else!” Or some sappy advice that traveling aimlessly is more important than being a productive member of society.