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A guide to making yourself at home in other people’s homes.

One of the greatest things about traveling is all the great people you meet. Make a good impression and they may be reckless enough to give you their addresses. Imagine the look of shock on their faces when you actually show up.

At first you’re something of a novelty, like a roaming circus performer come to entertain all of your host’s friends. Soon though, when they find that you’ve been plundering their favourite biscuits or running up a phone bill, you may find that hints about your departure progress to the point that they change the locks and throw your bags into the street.

However in this cruel world of harsh economic realities the hotel, guesthouse or backpackers’ hostel may well leave your budget in tatters. Free hospitality may be the only way to sustain your travels. How then does the canny traveller leave his host always wanting more, more, more?

To learn the answers read on… Just remember that you’re karmically bound to be a damn good host when you finally get your act together to rent your own roof over your head.

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Bozo and the Storyteller

Imagine you, the room you’re in, the planet and everyone in it were all just a Story, figments of imagination in the mind of a Storyteller. But with Hoomanity set on self-destruction, the Storyteller’s health begins to fail and if he should die, what would become of the Story that he tells?

All hope for our world lies in the hands of a 9 year old boy and a foolish Bloon…

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