Colbert: Losing yourself (and your stuff) in Europe

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The World Hum blog posted an excerpt from fast-becoming-famous satirist Stephen Colbert's June 6 monologue on backpack travel to Europe with this humorous summary from Colbert: "Don’t go to Europe to find yourself. Who told you were over there anyway? You’re far more likely to leave yourself there along with some electronic equipment that gets stolen at a youth hostel in Paris on your last night there." Colbert, long loved by late-night TV watchers, mentions "that Jim Morrison cemetery" -- true that Morrison's Paris grave is a top must-see for the F.I.T. faction (that's the latest marketing term for flashpackers/backpackers -- Flexible Independent Travelers). Read it and laugh -- links to the Colbert Report vid, too.

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