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Having heard the sounds of Swiss cowbells in their native habitat, I can say that it's actually a much softer and rounder sound than comes across in the video. But then again, I am not a cow, so I don't know what sounds pleasing to a cow's ears.

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Not to take this conversation on a weird(er) tangent, but I've noticed that a lot of  travel experiences I looked forward to as an adult are a let-down in huge part because there's some aspect that nobody who has been there will think to talk about.

For example, I loved the show C.S.I. which was set in Las Vegas.  When I went to Las Vegas, I was absolutely gobsmacked by the noise level everywhere I went.   The live concerts were very literally quieter than restaurants, bathrooms, casino floors, parking garages, sidewalks, and pool facilities.  It's bizarre to me that nobody thinks to mention this.

Another example, people in Midwest states tend to describe Colorado as though it's lot like Northern Canada or a warmer version of Alaska.  Most of the state is high desert plains.  On any given day, you're far more likely to die of dehydration than hypothermia.  It's so dry here that people carry water with them all year around.

I watched a lot of westerns as a kid, and they pretty much never mentioned, or depicted wind in Wyoming.  I've been to Chicago and experienced many calm days, Cheyenne, not so much.

 

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When I spent a month in Jakarta Indonesia; everybody kept asking me if I lived in a gated community with armed guards. They found it hard to believe that I lived in the inner city.  US crime shows make a very false impression on the world.

When I worked with Europeans and told them I had a 5 bedroom brick house with a slate roof they thought I must come from a wealthy family when actually that 100 year old house in the inner city was the cheapest house of anyone I worked with in the USA!

Travel is "broadening" if you can accept that other cultures do things in different ways and that those ways are *different* not *wrong*!

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