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New travel guide spoofs, "Where not to go before you die."
Prolific travel writer Catherine Price is over the whole "bucket list" trend. Annoyed that a crappy movie spawned an obnoxious national book craze of all the things one must see, do, and visit before they kick it, Price decided to strike back. Her new release, 101 Things Not to See Before You Die is a hilarious, tongue-in-cheek compendium based on Price's own travel experiences.
Some of Price's picks include The Beijing Tap Water Museum, Times Square on New Year's Eve, rush hour on a Samoan bus, and Nevada. But the 31-year-old New Yorker is far from being a jaded crank. In a recent CNN interview, she explained, "People shouldn't take it too seriously-- it wasn't my intention to say all of these places are actually horrible. Some of them are pretty interesting. (The motivation...) was just to liberate people from the feeling there are all these things they have to do. I'm guilty of this myself, but if you're just going through things checking off lists then you're not really experiencing them. You're just doing it like an assignment."
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