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I Dream Now Travel blog is committed to publishing and sharing funny, outrageous, or unbelievable travel posts from across the globe. This invitation extends to travel authors and bloggers who would like to expand their audience and publish a guest travel post. But the invitation doesn’t stop there, anyone can submit a relevant or irrelevant travel post or article about a trip or journey.

The travel posts and articles may be submitted anonymously (no email) or with your name and link to your site at the top and bottom of the post.

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The Benefits of Submitting your guest travel post or article:

Submit guest travel post and get some Link Love:

– I’ll be sure to share a link to your blog or website and encourage my readers to check it out. You can also share links to your social media sites like Twitter and Facebook to help increase your followers.

Submit guest travel post and Expand your travel Audience and Readership:

– You can introduce yourself to thousands of new readers who have a passion for traveling.

Submit guest travel post and Increase the Page Rank to your travel site:

I will make sure that your article or photo blog is properly Search Engine Optimized for maximum exposure. Moreover, feel free to a link on your post that will redirect traffic to your site and increase your page rank.

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Funny Surf jokes and surfing humor

Two surfers are at getting ready to paddle out: Surfer one: “Hey, guess what! I got a new longboard for my wife!” Surfer two: “Great trade!!!!” Funny Surf jokes

4 guys are discussing how they get their wives to let them surf every Sunday morning. The first says “Every Saturday night I take my wife out to an expensive dinner”. The second says “Every Saturday I clean the house for my wife”. The third says “Every Saturday I let my wife go shopping and she can buy whatever she wants.” The fourth guy looks at the other three and just shakes his head. “You guys got it all wrong.” On Sunday morning I get up at 5:00am, shake my wife and say surfing or intercourse? Funny Surf jokes and surfing humor

Moondoggie and three of his surfing buddies have gone surfing every Saturday for nearly thirty years. One Saturday, the guys are surfing near a highway when a funeral processional drives by. Well, Moondoggie lays down his pool, stands up on his board and places his hand over his heart. This processional is huge and takes nearly five minutes to pass. Once it passes, Kent sits down on his board and waits for the next wave. Needless to say his buddies are floored by his actions. One of ‘em finally speaks up and says, “that sure was a respectful thing you did there when they went by.” Kent replied, “It seems the least I could do seeing as how I’ve been married to the woman for over thirty years!”

The best thing about surfing is that even though you’re scared enough to wet your pants, nobody notices.

Funny Surf jokes 

Reasons Why Surfboards Are Better Than the Opposite Sex…

Surfboards curves never sag.

Surfboards last longer.

Surfboards don’t get pregnant.

You can ride a Surfboards any time of the month.

Surfboards don’t have in-laws.

Surfboards don’t care about how many other surfboards you have ridden.

Surfboards don’t care about how many other surfboards you have.

Boats don’t mind if you look at other surfboards, or if you buy surfboard magazines.

If you say bad things to your surfboard, you don’t have to apologize before you can ride it again.

You can ride a surfboard as long as you want and it won’t get sore.

Surfboards don’t care if you are late.

You don’t have to take a shower before riding your surfboard.

You can’t get diseases from a surfboard you don’t know very well.

Famous last words from Surfers

• What’s the worst that could happen?

• It doesn’t look that big.

• It’s a little big for a beginner, but you’ll do fine!

• You catch this one, I’ll be right behind you.

• So this is how tow in surfing is done!

• Let’s both go, this wave is big enough for two people!

• Let’s see who can hold their breath the longest!

• I’m a traditionalist, leashes are for wimps.

• You mean you replace your leash every year?

• Check this out, I’m gonna’ take off fins first!

• Let me have this wave, would you?  My girlfriend is watching from the beach.

• It’s safe to sleep in the beach; just like the old days.

Things You Always Wanted to Say to Another Surfer – Funny Surf jokes and surfing humor

• I want to send my condolences to your wife.  Every woman makes a mistake now and then.
• Thanks for wasting another wave. . . how many is that?
• Yes, you got 500 waves with your big board. . . now maybe you should try a turn or something.
• What were you thinking when you bought a board with five fins?
• I saw you kook-out on that last wave— I’m just pretending like I didn’t see it out of courtesy.

Why You’re Late Coming Home

• I tried to make it on time, but the interviews took longer than expected.

Before Paddling Out

• Please don’t let the reporters know I’m here.  I hate when they follow me around.
• Is that Matt Ambrose?  I’ve gotta’ move North, he’s always bugging me for advice.
• If I don’t come back, you can have my dog.
• Alert the media, I’ll be at the Pier.

When Going for the Impossible Wave

• Hey, watch this!
• Banzai!
• If I don’t make it, you can have my lawn mower!
• Why am I doing this?

After a Great Wipeout

• Damn, I hate it when the seals grab your leash.
• Please help me kill the witnesses.
• Is it your first day too?
• Did I at least get a 10 for artistic expression?
• I knew I shouldn’t have had group sex last night.

After a Good Wave

• Now that I’ve shown you how, its your turn.
• Please, no autographs in the line up.
• Must of fired some 20 year old neurons.
• Do you suppose I’ll be able to do that again in my lifetime?
• What happened there?
• Sure glad I had my Viagra last night.
• If someone got my picture, I’m quitting surfing while I’m ahead.

When the Surf is Horrible

• Let me ask you. . . Why?
• Is there a reason we’re out here?
• This is desperation surfing.
• Is it still considered surfing when you don’t catch any waves?
• You know, golf sounds pretty good right now.
• I left a wife and a warm bed for this?
• Just shoot me and get it over with.

When You Drop in On Your Bro’

• If you can’t drop in on your friends, who can you drop in on?
• That’s a payback for 1992 when you dropped in on me.

Please drop us a comment with your Funny Surf jokes and surfing humor…

Funny Surfing jokes and surf humor

There is a certain satisfaction in completing a good pack.  When everything is done and everything is ready: the journey begins.   That about sums up my morning today.  I am beginning a new journey towards the unknown, with no plans or schedule, no itinerary, or idea of what the future holds; I am completely free.  I thought I would leave you with a couple quotes from the two movies I decided to watch before my trip.  I hope you enjoy….

Opening Quote from The Beach – Movie

”My name is Richard; so what else do you need to know?  Stuff about my family or where I am from? None of that matters.  Not once you have crossed the ocean and cut yourself lose; looking for something more beautiful; more exciting.  And yes I admit something more dangerous.  So after 18 hours in the back of an airplane; three dumb movies; two plastic meals; six beers and absolutely no sleep.  I finally touched down…”

“…So never refuse an invitation; never resist the unfamiliar; never fail to be polite; never over stay your welcome.  Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience: and if it hurts it’s probably worth it.”

“and as for traveling alone; fuck it.  If that’s the way it has to be; then that’s the way it is.” Quote The Beach Movie

The movie Pointbreak

“I must be crazy.”

“but are you crazy enough”

Opening Quote from The Beach Movie

Travel Rules for Backpackers

Travel Rules for Backpackers. Follow these philosophies in travel and life; they will never do you wrong.  This I promise with all my heart, cross my fingers and hope to die.

17 Travel Rules for Backpackers:

Travel Rule #1 – Dance like no one is watching

Travel Rule #2 – Love like you have never been hurt.  Love, Love someone, love something, love everything.

Travel Rule #3 – Spend like you didn’t earn the money; don’t take life too seriously: No one gets out alive, anyways.

Travel Rule #4 – Throw caution to the wind in pursuit of pleasure, because if it hurts, then it’s probably worth it.

Travel Rule #5 – Fear nothing, never quit, never give up, never surrender, and always speak your mind even when your voice trembles.  A life lived in fear is a life half lived; because man should never fear death but man should fear never having lived.

Travel Rule #6 – Nothing happens by chance, so don’t chance anything; make it happen now.  Don’t wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

Travel Rule #7 – Circumstance don’t make a hero, they just reveal him.    Man is not the creature of circumstances,
circumstances are the creatures of men.

Travel Rule #8 – The sky isn’t the limit, so shoot for the stars: Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Travel Rule #9 – Never refuse an invitation: Never over stay your welcome.  The only moment you can live in is right now, there is no past or future; only this moment. So live this moment to the fullest.

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Travel Rule #10 – Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find “tomorrow” on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday’s defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have.

Travel Rule #11 – Unhappiness and hate waste time better spent living

Travel Rule #12 – Laugh at yourself, life, and everything around you. Laugh as a remedy and a miracle drug that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective seemingly terrible defeats and worries in life.

Travel Rule #13 – It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. Remember that you have only one life to live so make the best of it. Be whoever and whatever you’d like to be. Pursue your passions and your dreams. Don’t waste time suffering.  It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Travel Rule #14 – Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

Travel Rule #15 – Just because you said it while drunk / stoned / tripping doesn’t make it profound

Travel Rule #16 – Never be afraid to cry or tell someone you love them.   Never take laxatives and sleeping pills together

Travel Rule #17 – Always lie to cops

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Submitted by Jonathan

Travel Rules for Backpackers

Travel Europe for the summer:

I remember a distinct moment from grade school: I looked around the classroom and wonder if anybody else was actually listening to the teacher. My wandering imagination has always fascinated me. I would dream constantly; paying little attention to the boring or mundane. My imagination is like a trusted friend I can always rely on to entertain me. I would learn this was to be my blessed curse; a never ending imagination of possible wonders.

I read somewhere that writing is no more than a guided dream…

Travel Europe for the summer

This dream starts in grade twelve English with the poem Ulysses by Lord Alfred Tennyson. It was the first time that literature would inspire me to take action. I was mesmerized by this poem and it would soon become a part of my soul. The great urge to travel the world pursuing distant horizons and unknown wonders filled my heart. I made a decision that day to travel Europe for the summer; and it was simply the most enlightening decision I have ever made.

“…I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’
Gleams that untravell’d world whose margin fades
For ever and forever when I move.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use!
As tho’ to breathe were life!…” Ulysses by Lord Alfred Tennyson

I found part of my true self that summer traveling in Europe. I grew more in character then the previous 18 years of my life. The world was a grand vast place and I needed to contribute my verse. Everything was so fresh and alive; I was seeing the world in a new light. It was sensory-overload and for the first time, my imagination stilled. I didn’t realize it at the time, but somewhere between The Grand Place in Brussels and the snow covered peaks of Switzerland, I took my first step towards a few fleeting moments of enlightenment

It would take three years for me to return to Europe. I had become a lost soul in University. My live the biggest life you can attitude had me hanging my hat in the pub instead of the classroom. I was having the time of my life, completely unaware that my future was taking a turn for the worst. I had lost all direction; something big was missing in my life. The Scary part was that I had no idea what.

I started my trip in England and managed to make my way down to Greece. Just thinking about Greece as I write gives me chills. That warm ocean breeze and winding seaside roads seemed to naturally heal my unhappiness. I was a free soul again: I was loving life once more.

Sitting on a rock in Corfu enjoying the splendor of the brilliant pink sunset and contemplating my life. I decided to make a list of everything I loved and hated about myself. I looked at the list for a long time – and then I threw it in the Ocean. It was a list of my past-self, and I made peace with it, realizing it had no bearing on my future. Then it struck me hard. This overwhelming and absolute feeling of joy invaded my soul. I wept with tears for joy for the first time in my life. I cried my eyes out and it felt wonderful. I was happy to be who I was; and proud of my place in the world. That cry still remains one of the happiest moments in my life. I was forever a changed man.

Nothing could hold me back from traveling to Europe next summer.  I needed to sit on my rock and figure out one question. What I want to do with my life?  The question was simple.  If I could do anything at all, what would make me the happiest?  The answer never showed. So I left Greece on a ferry heading to Italy. I was listening to Ben Harper’s song ‘Give a man a home’ and I finally figure it out. I wanted to travel the  world and write about it. That would make me the happiest man I could be.

I knew that was the answer I was looking for more then I knew anything else on earth.  I traveled up the coast to arrive in Barcelona a few days later; and had my first meeting with fate.  I arrived late at night and there wasn’t a bed to be found anywhere.  I stored my backpack in a locker at the train station and headed to the beach to crash. I awoke miserable and tired. I searched everywhere for 6 hours to find a place to stay. The hot sun was pouring down and my backpack was digging deeper and deeper into my shoulders. I had no luck at all.  I was ready to give up and get back on the train, but I decided to give it one more try. Finally, the hostel Alberg Palau had one bed available; relief.  On my bed was a copy of The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho: a story about a sacred journey to Santiago Compostela in Northern Spain to become a new man. That book would become part of my journey as I traveled through the luscious green valleys of Spain to the Cathedral of Saint James. The Cathedral was breathtaking and for the first time I felt immersed in the Soul of the World. I was certain that a higher source of power existed on earth, and I felt comforted by that.

“It is the pleasure of searching and the pleasure of the adventure.  You are nourishing something that’s very important-your dreams.  We must never stop dreaming.  Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body.  Many times in our lives we see our dreams shattered and our desires frustrated, but we have to continue dreaming.  If we don’t, our soul dies…” The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho

I returned home and picked up a copy of Coelho’s famous book The Alchemist.  It was an omen that confirmed everything I had learned in my travels. I would begin listening to my heart and following my dreams.  I was the Sheppard boy Santiago whose love for traveling had revealed his personal treasure. From that moment on, I dedicated my life to becoming a writer.  I had finally found what I was looking for; my destiny.

“When you want something with all your heart, that’s when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It’s always a positive force.” The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Ulysses is still my favorite poem, and The Alchemist my favorite book by my favorite author. I have yet to return to my rock on the beautiful beach of Corfu, but I know I will make it back there someday. Hopefully with a copy of my bestseller in one hand and my journal in the other.

“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Hope you enjoyed my insight…. Peace and safe travels…

Jonathan

Travel Europe for the summer