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Randy, a castmember of MTV's Real World: San Diego, an artist, a Sea and Cake fan and currently a spokesperson for STA Travel, chewed the fat about life, liberty and the pursuit of a good vacation. Street learns that the key to Real World success is aggression -- and that really, it's not that different from backpacking in Europe. Yeah. Right.

What was your experience on Real World like?

For me, I kind of had an easy time with it. I mean, I had the opportunity to live in some place new, work in some place new, have new friends. It was cool. It was like four months just to change your whole life.

Are you ever surprised when you watch the show by what they play and what they don't play?

Uh, you can kind of get a general idea of the storylines and the plotline they put to it, but the order of what happens is surprising. I mean, they have to sacrifice a lot of the timeline and events just to get a storyline, and a movement of character development and stuff like that. But it's pretty accurate. Just because, I mean, obviously, how are they going to tell a story of four months in like 28 episodes?

Traveling must have been a nice break. So you guys went to Greece on the show with ... ?

STA.

Was there a tight travel budget?

We were on a tight budget, in the aspect of like, we were doing student travel. So, most of your money is going to like going out and souvenirs and stuff. In others words, we weren't like spending all of our money on like hotels and accommodations.

What was your favorite city in Greece?

Uh, I liked Athens a lot, you know, because I love cities, you know what I mean? I just love cities. You kinda get more of the culture, and you kind of see, like, a lot more about the people. It's kind of like culture times 10 when you're in a city. It's so intense.

I've heard Athens is very dirty.

Oh, it is, it's grimy. But I like it.

Do you have any crazy travel stories from Real World?

When we were out to Greece, we had crazy experiences out there. I'd say one of the things that sticks in my mind is we had to take a boat out, using all the skills we had learned from sailing, to like maneuver this boat with no help to these pirate caves. So that was pretty intense, 'cause we sailed the whole boat ourselves using only knowledge that we had before.

They're supposed to do a Real World here next. What do you think of Philadelphia as a location for the show?

I've walked about two hours straight today, all the way down to the port, like, all the way back up Chestnut, down to State. So, I kind of like got a feel for the city, you know? It's cool. Reminds me a lot of Boston. I think that Boston's a great location, I think that Philly's going to be a great location.

So is the fame bug like the travel bug?

Once it's bit ...