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Never traveled before, how do I know where I'm supposed to go in the airport before the flight?
How do I know where I'm supposed to go after the flight?
What am I supposed to do after leaving the airport?
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>>2713300
>Never traveled before, how do I know where I'm supposed to go in the airport before the flight?
Normally check-in, then through security and border control if traveling abroad, then onto the Gate as designated on your ticket.
Alternatively ask airline staff to assist.
>How do I know where I'm supposed to go after the flight?
Depending on your travel itenerary, you can head to the next Gate if flying further, go to luggauge claim to retrieve any suitcases you have checked-in or simply head to the exit. If you're traveling further with public transport; look for airtrain or taxi hub.
Alternatively look for signage or guide lines on the floor.
>What am I supposed to do after leaving the airport?
Head to your accommodation. The means of which are up to you; either ask somebody to pick you up, take an uber or use public transport.
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>>2713300
>how do I know where I'm supposed to go in the airport before the flight?
usually you have to check in before the flight. you can do this at the airport but these days it is more convenient to do it online. usually online checkin starts 24 hours before the flight (sometimes more or less). after checking in you will get a boarding pass. print this at home if possible (or sometimes now you can just keep it on your phone)
if it is a big airport it might have several terminals e.g. LAX has 9 terminals, london heathrow has 5 terminals. the terminal you need will be on your itinerary when you book the flight. small regional airports will only have one airport anyway. make sure you go to the right terminal
head for the departures level. commonly departures and arrivals are on different floors.
look for a big board with all the departures displayed on it.
if you have luggage that you want to check in - go to the bag drop counter, they will take your luggage and give you a receipt. don't lose it. then go to security. this is also where you will get a boarding pass if you didn't print it at home.
if you don't have luggage to check in - you can go straight to security if you have already printed your boarding pass
go through security. this is inevitably a painful process, staffed by people who think that because they're wearing a uniform, they are hitler. keep interactions with them to a minimum.
once through security head to the gate (check a departures board again if you don't know what gate it is)
>How do I know where I'm supposed to go after the flight?
follow everyone else to the arrivals area. go through immigration if necessary. again staffed by little hitlers.
look for a board displaying where to collect your luggage.
>What am I supposed to do after leaving the airport?
enjoy your trip
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>>2713300
>how do I know where I'm supposed to go in the airport before the flight?
You can look at the websites of the airports you'll be traveling through. They all have maps, some more detailed than others. Also pay attention to what terminal you'll be leaving from so you know where to start from. Larger airports aren't always connected before security so you'll want to get dropped off in the right place.
>How do I know where I'm supposed to go after the flight?
Follow the signs to your next gate if you're connecting and eventually the signs to the taxi stand to get a ride to...
>What am I supposed to do after leaving the airport?
Whatever address the hotel you're staying at says they are located at. From there check for bedbugs and then go to a museum or something idk.
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>>2713300
>where I'm supposed to go in the airport before the flight?

First you have to know if it's domestic or international flight. Then once you are in the right terminal you look for the sign for your airline so you can check in. The attendant will tell you which gate you have to go through (after you've gone through security).

I recently discovered how much I fucking love to travel. I want to see way more of the world, but as of right now every time I go anywhere I have to go home after two weeks, be depressed that I'm home, and wait a year for my next trip.

I work in web development and only have 14 days of PTO a year. It's difficult to find full remote jobs in my area at my level of experience. How do people actually find the time/money to do this more regularly?
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Everyone wants to have their cake and eat it too. If you spend 50 weeks a year working, you should have more than enough money to go off and do your own thing. Of course, doing this means giving up the life you have built for yourself in America to fritter away your days wandering around foreign countries. You may find that luxurious paid vacations are far more enjoyable and rewarding than the pedestrian routine of wandering from place to place for months at a time.
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>>2712854
By having fucking money retard.
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>>2712854
Put as much money into investments as you can in the US and in a few years you should have enough to last you decades in, assuming you're not working low value jobs. Just don't waste money in the US, everything is overpriced for how mid it is
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People under 35 who do it are 90% from wealthy families and don’t have to worry about paying their own bills. Some are independently wealthy but that’s rare. I grew up dirt poor and it was never an option for me until my mid 30s, and even then it was one or two weeks a year at most
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>>2712854
Trust funds
Stocks, crypto mooning

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I have multiple friends saying they want to go X, Y, Z with me, but I don't fucking want to go with anybody. I like my freedom, I like solo traveling, I like meeting new people and doing things the way I wanna do. If I want to stay up til 5 am and do cocaine I will, if I want to stay in the hotel all day I will, if I want to go to a museum and then go to the beach for 8 hours and read a book I will. I don't want to keep up with anyone and anyone to be keeping up with me. I am a very unique guy. Not to be a weirdo, I do love talking to new people and meeting locals and chilling with them but I am not planning to go with anybody and listen to anybody's shit being stuck with them in another country for the duration of my whole trip.

How can I tell my friends I just don't fucking want to travel with them? I am made to feel guilty because they want to go and seem to rely on me to go on a fucking trip. I've been to numerous countries on my own and enjoy it the most as an escape from my day to day life and the people I'm surrounded with.

Last time my friend said "I know you want to go traveling alone again but make sure next time you go we're going together" ---- fucking pissed me off, feeling entitled to my freedom of wanderlust. I don't want to make them feel bad because they're all great people but I have my fucking reasons and the cons of me going anywhere with people outweight everything else.

How can I tell them it's just not gonna happen without them feeling bad and ruining the relationship by saying something I shouldn't?
Has anyone here been through a similar situation? What's the best excuse or explanation I could use to make everybody happy?
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>>2711657
chill bru. just say you like to travel solo.
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>>2712342
You're a shit, overbearing, overreaching, smothering, needy, desperate and lonely kind of a "friend".

Misery loves company
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>>2711657
you're all fake friends, not real friends

not judging and it happens to all of us. Real friends don't feel insecure and passive aggro about their relationship.

Just take off when the fuck you want without telling any of them. The ones that bitch up about it you can tell them to fuck off.
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Everything is better with friends, if you don't think travelling would be better with them then maybe you don't like them as much as you think you do.
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>>2711657
just explain it to them like you did to us. I have a friend who's like you, but in the end we ended up going to japan together, and we only spent 4 days out of 21 together
Maybe you can do it like that? It is more fun when you share your experience with someone during or at the end of your day

I'll be doing the same thing this year. We'll be there during the same period, but we'll mostly go our own separate ways, with occasional day trip/lunch/event together

What's the best place to go for type 3 fun?
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>>2712920
This is the real answer
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>>2712893
Jesus Christ their digicam looks like a low resolution PS1 game.
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>>2713255
>type IIII
kek, this polcel doesn't even know it's IV
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>>2713298
Kek this zesty negroid doesn't know how to tally.

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Hey Travellers
So two weeks ago I visited Shibuya in real life, all in all I feel like Persona 5 does a good job of portraying Shibuya, In my experience I noticed a lot of multi-floored businesses like Mandrake-Animate where I'd get lost and have to take an elevator to exit from. I also noticed that real-life Shibuya is way more packed... the crossing was intense!!

I actually travelled the Ginza line so seeing the actual train was amazing. Sorry for the Rambling but the point of this post is that visiting Shibuya in real-life has deepened my appreciation of Persona 5 and has my latest playthrough more enjoyable comparing it to my experiences. Especially travelling the JR lines.
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>>2711068
I have never posted on reddit. What does it feel like?
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>>2711069
Probably not good. You're posting on probably the most highly-moderated forum around. People bitch about jannies here, but it's nothing like what happens on that god forsaken site.
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Welcome to 4chan fellow Redditor (the Narwhal bacons at midnight)
This is the travel board (they call subreddits "boards") and while it has some trolls and racists it is generally good. Stay away from /b/ and /pol/ though, they are bigots and very scary. There are hackers on /b/.
Stay safe and have fun!
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>>2712050
/b/ is just full of porn now, newfags everywhere seriously.
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>>2710223
go back

Hear me out. this is a board about travelling, right? well, we need jobs (money) to travel. I see a lot of shit posting and doom posting but rarely anything about how to make it happen.

for those who don't know, merchant marines is a job type that can lead to travel. work on the boat, hit a port, back on the boat. and when you arent on a ship you can live overseas (if you can afford it). would a mm general or travel job general be a good idea? I think so.
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>>2708771
if you have army expirience maybe you can get a job as a meme mercenary the other posts are stuffed by third worlders it is not a nice job
t. greek
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im a croat deck officer that works on bulk carrier ships, basically what everyone says most ships are staffed by 3rd worlders and gone are the days of the crew traveling as you imagine it when in port. Also traveling to some giga 3rd world ports is far from fun.

the job is hard and frustrating and really not for most people, it will also destroy your personal life. The pay isn't even that good just that the standard of living in Croatia sucks so the pay is relatively speaking decent. The advantage is that you spends months home free from any sort of work with money in the bank and then you can use that money to travel wherever you and and however long you wish - but you could mostly achieve the same with some other high paying job.
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>>2708771
I want to be a merchant marine deck officer but I'm bad at math
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>>2710994
Damn, sounds rough
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>>2710994
I did one tour and I hated it so much that now I rather work wagie shit in my city.
t. also croatian

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My worst the experience in Asia was at the Thai-Laos border. I ate something bad so I had explosive watery diarrhea. I walked into the toilet and it looked pic related but dirtier with an inch of green and blown slime. The smell was overwhelming and I never used a squat toilet before so I took my pants off and held them in my arms while trying to squat with one hand on the slimy floor for support. The diarrhea was explosive so it sprayed all over my foot and sandals. I nearly puked. Most horrific memory from traveling in SEA
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>>2712567
Stupid hurts.
OP was stupid to choose bad food while being surrounded by good food.
Doubly stupid by choosing to have his runs in some filthy primitive public restroom.
Triply stupid by being so out of shape he can't even squat with his ass between his feet.
Probably quadrupled the stupidity factor by not having any asswipe in his wallet.
>>2712918
You're managing to sound exactly like an ignorant asshole with a poop fetish.
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>>2712910
wtf are you eating styrofoam or something?
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>>2712567
I remember my first squatter
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>>2712918
Just link her to this thread.
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>>2712567
I love seeing fat westerners defeated by their inability to squat, something even a baby can do by default. Enjoy covering yourself in your own fecal matter, it's fitting.

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This is my third day in Sydney and I'm not enjoying myself.
I don't have a clue what I'm doing. I can't really sleep in the hostel, maybe I'm jet lagged.
My plan is to move up along the east coast, which I'll be moving on in a weeks time.

Everyone back home said it'll be the time of my life and I'll really enjoy it etc
Idk. I'll be the first to not enjoy coming to Australia
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>>2707738
its not as good as europe fyi
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>>2707780
This is bait. Canberra is known to Australians as, "A waste of a good sheep station." There's nothing worth seeing there except the Australian War Memorial and military museum.

I suggest making your way up the east coast, as you'd planned. There are nice beaches and national parks along the way. Your mental image of Australia is probably what you'll be seeing in Queensland. Head towards Cairns and get a taste of subtropical and tropical Australia. Do some crocodile river tours or go to a crocodile farm, like the one in Rockhampton.

I went as far north as Airlie Beach this time a few years ago and was surprised it's not warmer in early spring. Really too cold for swimming.
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>>2707738
Sydney is a shithole filled with gooks, meaning the food is pretty legit, so eat accordingly.

Don't bother checking out anything out west except for Katoomba.

If you are into beaches check out Bondi and while you're there do the Bondi to Coogee walk. Maroubra beach is the best and filled with hot South American girls.

The rest of Australia is a lot nicer so it will probably be better
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>>2712491
>If you are into beaches check out Bondi
You are cleary not from Sydney, likely not even Australia. Tamarama is far superior.
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>>2712494
Probably some trip advisor faggot, Manly is nicer out of the two "famous" beaches. And Katoomba is a shit hole.

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For long trips do you guys do laundry at laundrymats or in your hotel shower or just bring enough cloths to last the entire time?
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>>2711879
Not everywhere is the same, but I promise you that you don't have to buy your own detergent at the store. The laundromat will either provide it to you for free, or they will sell it to you in portions that are sufficient for one load of laundry.
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>>2711882
To add to this, there are places that will do both. The free stuff is usually very basic, while the sold stuff is higher quality or for specialized purposes.

You don't usually buy these from a person. They're usually sold through vending machines or some kind of automated system most of the time.
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>>2711855
New clothes aren't clean, they need to be washed first.
>>2711853
Hotels have ongoing laundry needs, so have laundry facilities and staff that they're more than happy to sell to you, again, stop being poor.
>>2711838
>>2711652
Disgusting poors.
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>>2712228
>New clothes aren't clean
Not where I shop. If you don't know how to buy new clothes that have been pre-cleaned, then you're just as poor as the rest of them. Dirty chink piece of shit.
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>>2705880
I used a hotel's coin op laundry for the first time on a road trip this summer. Everything went better than expected but I probably wouldn't have risked it at a lower class hotel.

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>go to thailand because there are million threads on /trv/ about what a lifechanging experience it is
>haha I will surely get so many friends in bangkok at the hostel
>can't find anyone, everybody is travelling in packs, when I try to join someone they look at me as a weirdo, go sightseeing alone, feel miserable
>travel to chiang mai
>haha this time I will surely find some friends at the hostel
>same shit happens
>go to phuket
>same shit
actually think about killing myself in thailand. How the fuck should I get friends while travelling?
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>>2689272
>I don't fucking travel to have sone faggot expecting me to do things, defining what I should and shouldn't do.
Sounds like you got some issues to work out. You sound just as retarded as OP. "Oh no friend wants to go to the beach tomorrow. I've been seething all day about it. Sand is so course between my toes". This is how you fucking sound. Like a friendless faggot. Imagine malfunctioning because god forbid you have to interact with other human beings. Fucking topkek
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>>2704844
Attendence: 1 janny
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>>2689906
2/3 of your problems you can literally fix with going to the gym regularly for 3-6 months. The cystic acne can be fixed with surgery that I'm pretty sure you can get covered with insurance. Every time some fucking worthless autists complains about shit not working out, its always because of problems they refuse to work on. Suffer and become a better man or kill yourself.
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>>2694984
>I “just sit in my hotel room all day”.
nothing wrong with getting the most bang for your hotel bucks, i see no issue
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>>2689253
If you don't have friends here you probably won't make them there either and certainly not by intentionally trying to do so.

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I don't care what anyone says, the St. Louis Arch is the most impressive modern day monument.
>taller than the Space Needle
>indestructible
>stainless steel welded sections look like something an alien would make it's so perfect
>wildly impracticable, the viewing portion at top you can't even stand in

It's like a giant FU to the Earth, physics and gravity. It serves no purpose other than to say we yes we can build it. It's beautiful, simple and timeless, and for that I love it. St. Louis might be a shithole, but god damn if this thing doesn't bump it up a few points.
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>>2711505
It gets worse.
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>>2711562
It has a Six Flags.
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>>2711562
kek, my entire family lives in st. louis. I hate going back there. So many feral niggers running around doing retarded hoodrat shit. Could've been a decent midwestern city but they blew it.
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The Pantheon in Rome is easily the most impressive to me.
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>>2709592
I parked in a garage near the baseball field and walked to the arch park and was only stabbed 37 times.

Ever rode Greyhound?
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>>2709469
Probably once a while ago, but I'll never remember the time I didn't ride it. 2 AM bus got delayed for like four hours while I sat at their outside bus stop in the cold, before they let us know it was cancelled. No refund. Don't think I'll ever take an American bus again
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>>2711174
man what a nice guy. junkies go through that phase when they're just starting off and still have some money where the drugs just make them kind and generous. I hope that fella made it out of the hole in one piece. you hate seeing nice people get caught up in the junk.
>huwhite
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>>2709469
in the USA
once in 1999 LA to sandiego.
never agian.
The LA terminal was. mix of homeless people drugos and niggers. See I had come from another western country here greyhound was cheap, modern, clean and fun.

LA terminal was like a bad post nuclear apocalypse. LA generally looked shabby and run down to me.

Sandiego was better but still shabby, also Sanfran was ok but parks full of homeless blacks in thier 100's iin not 1000's

NYC was by far the best place back then this is pre 911, and I have grainy Digtal video from the top of one of the twin towers.
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>>2711889
to be fair LA greyhound station was one of the worst places in the country in the 90s guns n roses has a song about it
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>>2709469
Yes and overnight. You start seeing things at 4 o'clock in the morning. Some of them are real, others maybe not but you can never be sure.

What are the best churches to visit in the US?
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>>2697996
Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Its no longer a church, but the Miracle staircase is still there.
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>>2698075
your fat
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>>2711647
She's actually atheist (probably she kept her mouth shut about that) but she went for the spectacle rather than the actual architecture.
It still feels pretty weird considering most cult places (temples, churches and the like) tend to be visited (as a tourist) off service. But that is probably the whole point of being a megachurch, isn't it?
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>>2711672
Absolute worst church to visit. They charge admission, have stupid audio stories playing throughout the chapel, and then you literally are forced to exit through a gift shop that is twice the size of the chapel itself. It is a fucking scam and it is atrocious. The literal opposite of what a church should be. In Santa Fe you should go to >>2699301 and San Miguel Chapel, both of which are still actually churches and still have services. If you have a car you should also visit Santuario de Chimayo. But AT ALL COSTS you should avoid the absolute shitty, disgusting scam that Loretto ((Chapel)) represents.
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>>2711672
What do you like about it? What's special about the staircase?

>>2712170
calm down

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I was sitting at the gate to fly from Tokyo to Chicago when they announced the flight would be getting delayed by nearly 2 hours, I can speak Japanese so I went to the gate counter to ask what’s up and afterwards on my way back to my seat a cute black girl got my attention and asked me what they said.

VERY smoothly I sat down right next to her and explained the situation then immediately hit her with the “so why did you come to Japan” line, we ended up chatting for nearly an hour. Unfortunately she didn’t live in Chicago, she was just transferring there, but I like to imagine I could’ve asked her on a proper date if she was local.
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>>2712991
>could have chatted up any of the qt3.14 Japanese girls
>instead flirts with a nigger
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>>2712991
So why did she come to Japan?
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>>2712991
>blah blah blah forever with a cute girl
That's why you will remain an incel. A wasted opportunity
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>>2713015
Her parents met on a base in Okinawa or something and she was a low-key weeb.

Vermont is so damn beautiful, like most of new england
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>>2712622
It's one of the most sovlful states in America, that's for sure. The small farms, the rustic towns, the slowpoke highways following creeks through the hills. It's great for eating real farm-to-table food. However as a vagabond traveler, I much preferred Michigan for its plentiful open public lands. Michigan folks are easygoing and unpretentious, but their food is goyslop tier, however. Vermont feels economically exclusive and socially closed-off unless you are one of the weird-looking hipster whites with the obligatory libtarded mindset, which talks all about being inclusive and welcoming without actually being either.
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>>2712622
Vermont's a significant step up from Maine and NH in terms of tranquility and beauty.
Don't get me wrong, a lot of NH and ME are beautiful, but almost every square inch of VT is, and it feels like a peaceful place, removed from the rest of the world's troubles.
NH has the big mountain adventures (for east coast), but it's way busier with tourists. Way less calm and peaceful.
Maine is nice, but has a similar thing going on with tourists in the summer, and most of it isn't as pretty as NH or VT, it just has a lot of land so people have lake houses there.
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Too bad about the communism. Every nice place has to be ruined by it.


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