One of top selling books this past holiday season was Atlas Obscura, a travel guide to hidden and often very weird sights around the world. I was actually thinking of buying a copy, but it sold out on Christmas Eve and took well over a month to come back into stock. Once it was back on the shelf, I took a closer look. It seems to describe lots of sights that feature skeletons and skulls and other macabre things. I would like to travel a bit after I retire, but there are only so many places you can visit, and remote regions of the world that contain skull-filled castles is, for me, not one of them, and so I decided not to drop the $35 bucks (less my store discount) that it would take to buy the book. As a confirmed cheapskate, I have to wonder - what I was thinking?
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