I've mentioned before that we enjoy watching Youtube videos of people travelling. Since out travelling days are long gone, we get vicarious pleasure in watching other people going through the hardships just so that we can see what they see (or say 'We've been there!)
On favourite is a fellow called Ken (Ken Abroad). He is German, travels alone and focuses on SE Asia. He doesn't seem to have a wife nor a girlfriend and rarely travels with anyone else. He seems particularly naive and puts himself in situations which would look to be foolhardy. He has a few favourite tricks which he repeats endlessly wherever he happens to be: getting a haircut in a local barber shop or a shave, buying some local food at a market, buying a football shirt representing the country he is in, and buying some food to give to a beggar. And his routine seems to give him great success.
I've been trying to analyse what attributes you would need to be a successful blogger and, apart from foolhardiness, a cheerful manner, and so on, I think you have to be a great talker. Ken, like his counterparts, could talk under wet cement. We watched one clip this morning, 21 minutes long, with Ken sitting in his hotel room talking about his plans for the future. He had no notes and was talking in English, which to him is a foreign language, but he didn't stumble once, hardly drew breath and rounded up a 21 minute monologue brilliantly. I couldn't do it.
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