Lol, look at our boy playing the blasé international traveler after flying a couple of times to the most easy-mode European country an American can visit and spending all his time indoors playing video games. It'd be amusing to see him try to navigate a country where the native language isn't English, but, again, he'd just spend all his time in his hotel room on his Switch.
Firstly, I’m offended that he doesn’t recognize the Denver Airport for the ugly and permanently under construction abomination that it is. I’m not exactly sure why he had a layover in Paris either. Direct to Heathrow and a train ride to Birmingham is better than dealing with layovers. Especially because he went to London anyway! And for us Americans who don’t have many opportunities to travel by rail, you get to pretend to be on The Orient Express in an Agatha Christie novel, though hopefully with far less death.
The US to UK is international travel on easy mode, but England can be a quite enjoyable place to visit if you’re a history nerd with a fondness for any of their historical eras. I go every few years because I enjoy visiting places related to well known and long dead British writers. The added bonus is that most of those places are located in the slightly more charming pockets of England, away from the major metropolitan areas. England is also just different enough from the US to keep it novel, but still easy. Traveling to countries that are completely different from the US is amazing, but sometimes a vacation where you don’t have to deal with that additional challenge is nice. Kevin trying to make himself sound like a seasoned international traveler, just because he went between the US and England a few times, is hilarious though.
But to put all that money into crossing the ocean, just to do things like play video games and attend a Transformers con, is absurd! I’m no stranger to niche embarrassing nerdy conferences (long dead British authors, historical clothing, old lady crafts) so I’m not judging him for that. A quick google search tells me that TFCon, evidently the biggest fan run con, took place in LA, Baltimore, and Toronto this year, so it’s not like there’s no big US cons. I get that he’s also visiting friends, but considering that probably just involves pretending they’re going to have sex but not actually doing it and playing more video games, he might as well just Skype. Actual poor Americans don’t get the luxury of foreign travel, unless they’re immigrants who scrape together any excess money from their job(s) to visit their family in their homeland every few years.
So Kevin is a larper anarchocommie who claims to be poor, is both physically and mentally capable yet still jobless and legally labeled as disabled, while also being a prolific online grifter who begs for money to cover his ‘bills’, yet he takes a pointless and completely wasted yearly vacation to the UK. Stupid.
