The Not-So-Glamorous Side of Travel

Dan Kay
4 min readJun 12, 2019

Look on Instagram, or Facebook, or Youtube, and it seems like every traveler is living a life of incredible luxury, jet setting around the world and relaxing on deserted beaches. While that is part of the experience, it’s definitely not all of it.

I’ve written on my own blog about why I share embarrassing experiences, but as they say, sometimes a photo is worth a thousand words. So here are 13 photos and anecdotes that show the embarrassing, tricky, and straight-up inglorious side of travel.

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Dan Kay

Always adventurous. Occasionally political. I write creative stories about life, love, climbing and travel. thisisyouth.org