some little kids were excited to say hello to me in english

>>2803643
>About 5pm in central Pattaya and can't sleep
>Never been to the big "PATTAYA" Hollywood sign rip-off in 8 trips here.
>Decide to walk all to Budda Hill (where the sign is) near Pratumnak as it's nice and cool before the sun comes up around 6, about 45 min walk
>Exchange pleasantries with a few farang-Thai couples on the way up, just out for their morning stroll
>Get near the top, after the observation point with a few people taking photos of the view, but just before the stairs that take you down to the sign but there's some 20-something Thai guy there
>I say "good morning" to him or some shit
>He asks me if I'm on holiday or living there, then tells me the sign is just down some steps to our right
>I thank him, then out of the blue he asks me if I want to fuck. 6 in the fucking morning, sun has just popped its head above the horizon, and there's some dude prossie hanging around one of the most popular tourist attractions asking lone tourists if they fancy a bunk up
>"lol, er, er, no t-t-thanks, I'm just passing through; my gf is waiting for me back at my place"
>Quickly walk away without even seeing the stupid fucking sign

It really is a special place, Pattaya.

>>2803660
I had that in Tokyo, about a dozen of them on their way back from school. Felt well wholesome.

>>2803663
>5am

ffs

>>2803660
>>2803664
Based

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>be me
>moving internationally for 2 years, haven't traveled much before this
>doing 3 months of travel before I start working in other european country
>during my 3 months I arrive in Podgorica, late at night. It actually looks pretty suss in some of the streets
>book into shitty/cheap hostel because I am only going to be there for like 10 hours
>arrive at hostel, owner tries to convince me to stay in private room for same price, I say no because I am keen to socialize with some strangers
>get into dorm room of 4, two russian guys are the only people in there, they have been there for months and left home when the war started
>they don't speak much english but I tell him my story and vice versa, socialize about where I should visit if I ever visit russia, talk about war stuff and how they left
>see him praying before bed
>wake up in morning pack my shit and say goodbye
>he tells me he was praying for me and he hopes I am safe in my travels
first time meeting russ bros as I live on the other side of the planet but they were nice, I am an atheist but it was a gesture I probably won't forget.

>Be 19. Staying at a hostel in Albuquerque, New Mexico
>City is sketchy as hell, see bullet holes in building across street
>Befriend a white trash guy who is partying before going off to army
>Take bus up to the hills, go walking around in wilderness, following some fresh cougar tracks, freak ourselves out thinking it's going to attack us
>On bus back some old drunk injun says he's gonna whip these white boys
>I was scrawny twerp but my buddy was tough and would've handled him
>Get off bus and walk down main drag
>Saturday night. Electricity in the air. Groups of cholos in cars yelling at us
>Make it back to hostel, start hanging out and drinking with some prison biker dude and a 300 lb bounty hunter
>Bounty hunter gives me an ID he took from a guy who sort of looks like me, it becomes a pretty useful fake for the next couple years even though it's expired and doesn't look that much like me
It was an adventure

>>2803684
that's a nice story anon

Climbed kawah ijen and went down into the crater with no headlamp on a rainy night. I loved somehow.

>>2803643
in Krakow I was upset about not getting laid so my friends convinced 2 brunette British girls in the hostel to make out with me

>>2803643

>be me
>23
>American
>staying at hostel in Lyon
>hanging out with generic hostel group
>Group of gay Aussie join the fun
>10-12 people smoking/drinking in the hostel lobby
>2 portugesse girls in the group
>gay Aussies + some other Americans go off to some club
>me + leftovers still drinking, doing our things
>Literally the most gorgeous Portuguese woman I've ever seen from the group comes out to me as I'm having a smoke
>"my friend is off to sleep early, want to grab a beer"
> Of course .jpg
> Finish cig
> Head back inside
>Group or 10+ Norwegians walk outside
>Ask if we want to go to club
>The most beautiful women in the world says yes
>Join them
>leave because Norwegians are too drunk and only speaking Norwegian to each other
>Wake up at 8am
>The most Beautiful Portuguese woman is sleeping topless in a bunk across the room.
>leave Lyon


I've hated Norwegians ever since.

>>2803890
based friends

>Went to Thailand
>Visited the Grand Palace, rode an elephant, ate a scorpion on a stick on Khaosan Rd
>Came home

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When I visited Amsterdam for the first time, I didn't know that their trams had separate entrances and exits. I just thought you could enter/exit through any opening like any other public transportation in any other city.

So I absentmindedly entered a tram through the exit. Then I hear a voice over the loudspeaker.
>"Hey man, you gotta go in through the entrance!"
>"Come on, man, get out and try again!"
By then, the tram's doors had shut and started moving.
>"Get your ass over here!"

So there's a service desk in the middle of the tram. Pic related. Unlike the pic, the man behind the desk wasn't an old Dutch man, it was a young Surinamese man. He proceeded to give me a loud tongue-lashing over what I did was illegal, and if the public transport authorities happened to see this, I would be fined. There was no professionalism to be had, he was keeping it real.
"You can't fucking do that shit! You want to spend your money on weed and bitches, not on transportation fines! I'm not mad at you, I just want to keep you out of trouble!"

Then at some point he forgot that he was giving me an ass-chewing and pulled out an Amsterdam tourist brochure. On the back, in the Notes section, he started writing down names of his favorite restaurants, places to get weed, and a VR arcade.

I wasn't even mad at him. After years of watching so many comedy movies, being yelled at by a black man with a funny accent just doesn't fill me with anger, fear, or hatred. I was actually trying really hard not to laugh.

>>2803922
kek

>>2803922
lmao. Please let this be real.
Why don't my trams have info counters?

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>>2803643
>Going to do Theth Valbone hike in Albania
>Walk around Bajram Curri (used to be Albania's most dangerous city, full of blood feuds)
>Find a guy to drive us to Valbone
>He stops off and shows us shit on the way
>Get to destination
>Takes us to a cafe and buys us beers
>Basically halves the amount we paid him for the 30 minute journey through the mounains
>Camp out in the town overnight
---

>Next day, slowly make our way up the mounain
>Stopping off for beers and honey yoghurts wherever possible
>In flipflops with huge packback and a stick
>Huge fucking piece of ice blocking the way
>Gf wants to yolo and walk over it
>Huge vertical drop
>Decide to 'climb around' it.
>Path narrows, and windy as fuck near top
>Make it
>Darkness is about to fall and we're like 4 hours away
>Find flat land on open street maps
>Pitch up tent
>Get a fire going
>Drop mdma
>Horse joins us
>Sit naked by a fire drinking rakija, taking lots of lewd pics, eating undercooked shit from an open fire, and chilling with a horse

where's that mountain, doesn't look like mt fuji but the trees look japanese

>>2803977
Torres del Paine

>>2803977
The mountain is called Mount Fitz Roy and is located in Southern Argentina/Chile. Pic is taken in Los Glaciares National Park, in Argentina.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitz_Roy

Had to use AI to figure this out since this tard >>2803979 gave a wrong answer.

>go to NY
>going through a park nearby the Empire State Building at like 10 pm
>drunk girl and her bf a few steps ahead of me
>light drizzle starts, just a few drops really
>the girl turns around and accuses me of spitting on her
>I instantly laugh it off and tell it was the rain
>tell her twice because she didn't hear it properly the first time
>she looks up and instantly goes YEEEEAH I KNOW JUST MESSING WITH YOU HAHA JUST MESSING WITH YOUUU~
>shoot a glance at her bf
>he hasn't said anything during the whole thing and has a wish I was dead gaze
>go in the opposite direction just to be sure the bitch doesn't start anything else

>>2803985
>Had to use AI to figure this out since this tard >>2803979(You) gave a wrong answer.
:(

>>2803922
lol you appear to have the right attitude, anon

lived in Paris for two years. traveled to about 20 countries while living there as a base. everytime someone learned I was American they'd always ask if I was from New York. When I told them I was from Tennessee they ALWAYS said "Oh, Jack Daniels!"

>>2804191
kek

>>2804191
I have on at least three separate occasions told a European I was from Virginia, sometimes even specified that was from the Eastern, Coastal region, only to have them serenade me with John Denver's Country Roads.

>>2804203
>John Denver's Country Roads.
I was in Budapest a couple years ago. Our hostel went to a backpackers bar and they made all the Americans (there was like 5 of us) get on karaoke and sing this song.
Also it was Christmas Day lol

I was once stood on a busy street in Prague when i felt someone stroke the full width of my back as i turned a pale bald man dressed all in black walked away without so much as looking back. He wasn't walking like everyone else.

>>2803975
How many tattoos dos she have? Your girlfriend sounds like she might be a man. Where do you get mdma in Albania? Along for a friend

>>2804313
You might be a faggot, or a bit brainrekt by social media if you think all women have tattoos and are men.
As for MDMA, just brought it over, as wanted a bit of an escape after the covid clownery. However, it's possible to get coke in Sarande really easily just by asking around. Good shit, too. Literally just asked the barman in one bar and a BMW pulled up in about 15 minutes. Was even given cut up straws, kek.

>>2803998
His 'wish i was dead' gaze will probably come true when he gets ridden to death and strangled by that crazy bitch later.

I got attacked by a group of three Arab-looking tourists in the Louvre. I did literally nothing to provoke it. I was scared because I was surrounded and also because I was in a hallway gate with statues on either end of me; that is, I was scared until the main guy punched me. It was the weakest punch I'd ever experienced, straight on the chest but it didnt even hurt at all. So I laughed at him, he yelled some angry stuff as I waddled away.
This is like the one story I have, excepting the time I pissed against Krakow's main church because I was wasted. Usually I just visit good places, see nice things, eat good food, maybe watch some good soccer, and go home with nothing ever happening. The rare occasions I go out it's only good vibes. So that punch really sticks with me - it's like a forced canon event that didn't fit in the narrative but the game had to play the cutscene anyway

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>>2803922
out of all the things a dumb tourist wouldn't get, this is still next level stupid. There are stickers all over the door telling you NOT to enter there. You could probably also tell from everyone else not standing at that door. Maybe don't smoke weed before you get to your destination.

>>2804253
you have been marked

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>>2804208
I walked past a circle of Asians on the sidewalk on a Sunday morning in Vientiane and they were all singing "Country Roads, Take Me Home".

>>2803973
Maybe you live in a civilized country where public hall monitors are not needed.

>>2804160
it's probably an AI pic itself

Um I dunno if this is officially "travel" but I guess kinda - when I was in my early 20s my parents sent me to rehab and I wasn't allowed to come home after - so I had to pick an "aftercare" program so I did in the mountains of the pacific NW cuz it looked pretty (only did one actual serious hike though and it took like 10 hours cuz I got lost in an ice field on the way back and a search party had JUST set out for me when I got back to the car) - anyways so I was in this mountain town - and I got kicked out of the aftercare program after 2.5 months for having alcohol on the premises - I didn't really care about being there and I wasn't even drinking that much and you were allowed to drink off-premises, just not store alcohol or drink at home - which was stupid but anyways

so I started going to this bar in town and got friendly with what seemed like the head-bartender a canadian woman maybe in her 40s a little rough around the edges I think she was a meth addict - certainly a dealer
and we got kinda friendly and somehow one night she ended up showing me her lockbox full of meth - and I'm just like a raging fag and love pretty crystals - I don't enjoy meth and didn't take any ever from her - but like I remember it came in like a rainbow of colors in big huge crystals and I've never seen anything like it before or since it feels like a dream
but then somehow either right before or after that night she had a male friend in town - he was from prairie province canada - like she was originally - very few were truly from the resort/mountain town I was living in at the time - and they were yucking it up at the bar - and he kept saying faggot over and over - not in direct reference to me but I was kinda an obvious fruity gay and I thought it was weird she didn't tell him to knock it off and I got kinda upset over it - I think also just generally I didn't feel welcome as a gay in the town and that had kinda made me go insane by that point - so I went home and wrote a craigslist post detailing how the bartender sold meth from the bar

and I guess there was a minor scandal and somehow I got word they had drug tested the bartender - she was negative - and there was no proof she was selling - so she kept her job (though I'm sure I put the fear of god into her and that was my point), and I tried - heh- to go back to the back - and this male voice calls me on the phone - did you write that craigslist post - me - yeah - him - ok you can't come back to this bar

so me and my friends had to find a different place to hang out - which sorta let to our friendship dissolving a bit cuz they were barflies and their favorite bar was that one cuz it was kinda "modern" and attracted a young hip crowd

>>2804510
https://121clicks.com/inspirations/breathtaking-landscape-photography-greg-boratyn/

>>2804484
I met a man in Cambodia wearing a porn hub tee shirt

>>2804446
for what ?

>>2804548
you know what, get some lube prepared

>>2804512
>be raging fag
>believe in 'just say no' reagan-tier propaganda
>pass up chemsex with slutty milf
>break someone's trust in a matter of hours
>get offended by 'faggot' (which you are)
>wrote a blogpost on craigslist while crying
>a dirty fucking snitch
>tried fucking up someone's livelihood
>lost your friends over it
I don't think i've ever read anything so infuritating and pathetic. The guy was right to repeat faggot endlessly. It 100% was directed at you.

>>2804684
>pass up chemsex with slutty milf
based, I would never pass this shit up

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Photography is remembrance. Some people scoff, but taking a picture prints an impression onto your mind better than merely observing it does.

>>2804531
He makes those "security guard cavity searches female shoplifter" videos.

>go to Italy for two weeks with my gf
>plan is to start in Rome, then rent a car and go on a road trip for the remainder of the journey
>book a car online with 13:00 pickup time
>travel to the airport and wait for the shuttle bus to the car rental agency
>bus is delayed
>arrive at the agency, they tell me the car is almost ready, should arrive any minute now from the car wash
>wait almost 40 minutes
>get a completely new electric Citroen C3
>never driven electric but w/e
>couple of hours later the battery starts to run out, take a pit stop at the charging station
>realize that there is like 100 different apps for charging
>try them one by one, neither of them work for different reasons
>start to get desperate because our airbnb is expecting us, tell them we're delayed
>spend good 2 hours trying to find an app that works with no avail
>decide to fuck it, drive to the next charging station and hope it will work there
>get a feeling to take one last look around before setting off
>notice that one charger accepts cards and holy shit, it actually works
>arrive at Amalfi coast way after 23:00 while our airbnb expected us at 19
>get into the car the day after and realize that it was a good thing we arrived so late because during daytime this damn coastline is the most dangerous road I've ever driven on in my life

>>2803643
I went to Spain in college as part of some big school trip for hospitality majors. I wasn't one, but they opened up the trip to all the students so I signed up. Was 18 and mostly interested in being able to drink in bars and buy alcohol. Spent the whole trip drunk and don't really remember anything.
That's the only time I've been outside the continental US.

>>2804739
Quite possibly the most milquetoast post I've ever had the pleasure of reading on /trv/.
Glad you made it, anon, and hope the rest of the trip was pleasant.

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>>2804717
Agreed

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>>2804510
Patagonia is one of the most beautiful places on Earth, yes it looks like that. At least when it's not all covered in snow.

>>2804717
Fully agree. Looking at my photos when I'm down motivates me to keep working hard, saving money, and travelling. I'm also getting better at amateur photography and people give me a lot of compliments for my photos now, which is nice.

>travel for the first time abroad, alone
>qt Japanese airline attendants shocked at my crackhead strung out face when they checked my passport since I had been up for like 30 hours almost
>fly to Bangkok
>fumble through the airport and have mini panic attack when the tourist SIM card doesn't work on my phone right away and I can't get the ATM working
>zombie moding but chill out a bit once things work
>stumble outside of Suvarnabhumi airport as I call a Grab, not knowing wtf to expect
>see a homeless guy sleeping on the ground by the street
>Grab takes me to a random ass nearby hostel I googled
>I awkwardly ask him several times if he speaks English, hoping I might find a friend but he basically just grunts no
>stagger out of the car and look around the area which is by the train station trying to locate the hostel
>eventually spot it and go ring the bell
>it's 4 or 5 in the morning and this Thai lady walks out, groggy and looking confused
>asks me if I have reservation
>tell her no but I just got off the airport and I need a place to sleep
>I guess she realized I wasn't a threat or some drifter and lets me in and sits me down, offers me water and is surprised at hearing I went 35 hours on my trip
>shows me the options for lodging and shuffles me upstairs so I can crash
Oh boy, it was an experience. What should I even do boys? I've got almost 2 months left to go.

>>2804865
Are you the sperg that was going to Pattaya for 58 days?

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>>2803684
Another story of mine;
>living across the world in European country
>had a bad breakup in the last year so I moved to try something new, feelings still festering over this
>father also recently passed away, wasn't really close with him but had me feeling really weird
>late 20's, uncertain about my future, all these emotions are starting to swarm together kind of like a storm and I am in the eye of the storm
>go to work on a construction site, get into the elevator with this irish guy
>elevator breaks down as we start descending
>he starts telling me his life story, how he was an orphan, he went to USA and was wandering around the deep south and found his way into the revival tents, extremely charismatic, has the gift of the gab
>starts mimicking all the stuff he was doing in there, praying being loud and extravagant
>explains how he escaped from the church stuff and was wandering around USA in the 80's and met a girl in a convenience store somewhere there
>fast forward to now and he married her and they have beautiful children, she just passed away from cancer
>we have been chatting for about an hour and we don't realize it, elevator gets fixed and starts descending again
>he looks to me and says "when the river starts flowing boy its best to follow it, because the river usually knows where its going"
>say goodbye, exit elevator
I was fucking shook when he said that to me, he helped me more then he knew, even though my problems were so minor.
>mfw he exited

>>2804865
>arrives at airport
>takes a rideshare to accomodations
>checks in
Must be your first time traveling if this counts as an experience.

>>2804874
No, I wish I was that based
>>2805439
KEKEKKKKEk, but yes anon, I mentioned as such. I am still so overwhelmed by the freedom of being here, please don't judge me for being an akward shelterd sperg

>>2804722
Fapped to countless

>>2805507
Enjoy pal

>>2803922
dystopian society

Happened to me last year in Japan:
>Visited Kanazawa with friend
>I speak basicly no japanes, he only a bit
>Wanted to get something for dinner
>Freind suggest going to some small okonomiyaki place
>I like this stuff and the restourant has good reviews, so why not
>Arrive at the restourant it only has two ther people inside
>A middle aged women cooking behind the counter and an old women drinking
>The old women waves us to sit with her at the counter
>Sure why not, it is always nice to interact with some locals
>She taps on the menu to recomend us something, whitch we order
>We 4 try to have a bit of conversation, which despite our very limited japanes and their limited english it goes allright
> We all eat and drink and have a nice time
>After some time i start to notice that the old lady is very heavily starting to flirt with me
>Very heavily
>Every time she says something the owner of the restaurant start laughing
>While i don't understand anything she says my friend does seem to get atleast some words, based on his shocked face
>After some time she starts touching my beard and runs her fingers through my hair
>I slowly start to panik, but the only thing i can do is drink more Umeshu Soda
>I look for help from by buddy, but at this time he seems very amused by the situation
>Everybody gets more and more drunk and she starts kissing me on the head and pulling my beard
>When the restourants finaly closes she insists on walking us to the hotel
>Once we got there she tries to get my to take her with us
>I turn her down gently, but firmly
>She leaves us, noticably looking sad

That was definitively my stranged travel story so far
Looking back it was a fun experience, though it was not at the time

Atleast i got some some free food and alcohol

Did a roughly 30 mile long distance walk in England in a day. Had never walked even close to that distance before, my legs were completely out of leg juice by mile 24-25 and my feet felt like they were made out of bones exclusively. I am American.

>15 years old, my buddy and I go on a Mexico cruise with our dads
>first night we go see a Broadway-type show in a big auditorium on the ship, later that night we sneak back down to said auditorium to snoop around
>nobody around, we go back behind the stage and find a door
>turn knob, opens right up
>entire room is filled with bottles of alcohol
>buddy immediately chickens out, I go in
>fill up a sprite bottle with rum
>start drinking, I am shitfaced for the first time in my life within minutes
>buddy is entertained at first but quickly wants nothing to do with me after I embarrass us both in an elevator in front of two old people
>tells me he’s going to bed
>follow him to his and his dad’s room
>shuts door in my face
>i begin to piss on the door
>he’s yelling through the door “are you pissing?!”
>I stumble away laughing, my room is down the hall but I take the first door on my right
>full blown slideshow drunk, one second I’m in the hall, next second I’m wandering around in the staff quarters
>in the bowels of the ship now, went up or down who knows how many floors
>everything is stairways and pipes
>end up in a janitor’s closet
>urge to shit arrives, all the rich food I ate earlier comes knocking
>pull down pants and shit in the middle of the room, don’t even think I squatted
>exit the room, glance back as I do
>vacuum cleaner in the center of the floor is covered from the top down in sickly looking, bright-green colored shit despite me not eating a single veggie
>a tribute to jannies past, present, and future
>get lost for what felt like hours
>finally found my floor and go back to my room
>sobered up enough to have a fun conversation with my dad and he has no idea somehow or just didn’t let on

Great trip, Mexico is a complete shithole but teenage me had a blast

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>>2807070
What. The. Fuck. Why would you turn this down you fucking idiot

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Have a few, so guess I'll start with my favorite
>Visiting Iceland in the middle of winter
>Me, a Moroccan, a frenchman, and 3 other Americans doing a pub crawl and northern lights hunting
>Fuck about to a microbrewery where the beer is just a little cheaper than the usual $13 per beer
>Hear one of the most southern accents in the corner, look over to see a redhead
>Not 10/10 material, but fairly cute and seems to be around my age
>Go over and chat her up, both of us were solo tourists who've always wanted to visit Iceland
>Also Björk fans
>She complains she hasn't seen the northern lights yet
>offer to show her a good spot and walk her back to the hostel
>not even 3 minutes and pic related
>Very excited southern girl noises here
>finally get her to the hostel, only had a day left in Iceland, but offer my number
>make the rookie mistake of not asking for hers
>say bye and walk back to other hostel
>nearly get snowed on to death
>immediately burst into hostel and threw my jacket and coat onto the nearby heater
>frenchman from earlier returned earlier and laughs at the sight of my beard being almost 100% snow by this point
>go into bathroom and fill the entire sink with snow
>chill out in the common area for about 20 minutes with the few others there thinking I was tweaking
>day goes by and never get a message from southern girl
>Leave Iceland bitchless
I still wonder how it would've gone if I had actually just asked for her number instead, but it is what it is. Haven't had any luck in Alaska either.

>>2807146
See. I have nothing against older women in principle.
This one however was about 75+ years and not exactly in the category aged gracefully

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>>2807070
>>2807241
Fucking kek

She must have been either lingering in the shallows of dementia, or you're a sperg and accidentally gave her the wrong social cue without realising. Terrifying indeed. I'd probably have just ran away.

>>2807241
>>2807249
I was walking back from a bar in Kyoto at like 3 or 4am with some local friends, an old woman started offering me "masaji" and I walked off very quickly. My friends were laughing and said she said "ah, he ran away"

>>2803643
Decide to go to Hawaii for my birthday. My girlfriend has never been either so thought it would be a good trip

>day1 kona
>next day fly to Maui
>stayed on mainland for a couple nights
>second hotel in kaanapali, huge resort, beautiful. They have parrots and animals at the resort. Huge pool. Lots to do.
>annoying gf wants to do hikes, do 2 days of full hikes I’m beat
>get in a big argument with gf because I want to rest and she wants to do as much hiking as possible
>go to bed, huge thunderstorm at night. Girlfriend wakes up says something is wrong
>power is out
>its my birthday, decide I want to go to a goat farm. Lots of traffic, powerlines are down, traffic cops everywhere.
>return later in the day around 6pm
>traffic jam, backed up for miles.
>no information, decide to wait it out for a couple hours
>couple hours turns to 6 hours
>no cell service
>go talk to the road cop. He gives no information. brush fire. could be an hour or a few days.
>sleep in the car
>girlfriend is panicking because she left her meds in hotel
>cop says fuck off, no passing. No idea whats going on just no
>girlfriend is a marathon runner and has done a few ultra’s and iron man. I joke with her about running to the hotel resort
>joking becomes reality. Cars aren’t allowed to pass but they can’t prevent you from walking.
>walk 20 miles, took us 8 hours
>see some weird shit along the way, cars incinerated buildings on fire, huge trees ripped out of the ground. Helicopters dropping water, like a war zone. Look around at some burned down apartments.
>we make it to the hotel, grab our luggage and find an emergency evacuation tour bus, the hotel is evacuating the resort
>realize some of the buildings and cars we passed by probably had dead people in them
>don’t speak of this again since it was the dumbest idea, we should have just left all our shit in the resort and flown home.

>>2804512
He was 100% right to call you that, you fucking faggot.

>>2807117
based retard

>>2803660
A kid flipped my off when I waved at him diving by in the backwoods of Vietnam.

>>2807918
based

>>2804512
God you’re a massive faggot.
Also I genuinely can’t tell if you were in Whistler, if you were you’re a double faggot given that whole place is gay as fuck.
>>2807070
Damn dude was she mid looking or were you just not in the mood?
To be fair it sounds like she came off way too aggressive, although personally I’d be into that.

My travel stories suck but I guess I’ll share my first 48 hours in Spain.
>be me taking first solo trip
>9 hour direct flight to Barcelona and 4 hour flight the next day to Tenerife
>land in Barca
>300 people in customs line with only 2 agents working
>two black girls (definitely American) skip the queue to go to the EU line which was empty
>they immediately get stopped by a customs officer and taken for questioning
>5 seconds later, an agent beckons me over to an EU customs booth
>get processed and sent on my way within 30 seconds
>sweet
>go around Barca for 8 hours until my hostel opens up in El Prat
>hostel is humid as fuck and people are loud at fucking 2am when I have a taxi to make at 4am for a 7am flight to Tenerife
>get 2 hours of sleep but make my flight
>get to my airbnb nearby Puerto de la Cruz 6 hours later
>get groceries and cook up some steak
>see something on fridge door
>cockroach
>clean the oven and sinks completely and go take a nap hoping it was a stray roach
>wake up and go back to kitchen
>it was not a stray
>oven and counters are now covered with dozens of cockroaches
>call airbnb host saying their house is infested
>“oh I’ve never had a cockroach since we bought this house in 1993, that’s weird!”
>wut
>an hour later the owner and her mother come by and SWAT team the dozens of cockroaches over the next 30 minutes
>zero chance this hasn’t happened before
>tell the host I’m gtfo’ing tomorrow morning and to only charge me for 1 night
>luckily she refunds my whole stay (minus the cut AirBNB took which wasn’t refunded) and find a new rental in La Oratava
>wake up at 7am to haul my shit to a laundromat 1 hour away by foot
>wash all my shit and try and see if I can check into my Airbnb early
>no bueno
>also realize I lost the pin for my prepaid sim
>walk back to dig it out of the trash bin by the roach motel
>hike almost 1km uphill with all my shit to go get drunk at wineries until dark
Minus the roaches: 11/10 trip.

>>2804739
>13:30 pickup time
I always ignored that and just set it to 10 am pick up and 10 am drop off. They never seemed to care if I picked up/dropped off the car a few hours later.

>>2804739
Had a similar experience recently in Sardinia.
>hired a car
>brand new electric car
>drive to a beach to do some activity
>road stops just before the beach, have to drive on rocks the rest of the way
>get a flat tyre
>no spare tyre in the car
>call the car hire company (hertz)
>try and explain the problem but her english isnt good enough to understand
>eventually she says shell call me back
>she calls back an hour later
>doesnt offer a solution, asks me what the problem is again
>tell her
>she tells me to add her on whatsapp and send her my location
>do that
>she says shell call me back
>its late in the afternoon and im starting to feel like were going to be stranded here tonight
>she calls back half an hour later
>says she will send out a tow truck and we'll have to get a taxi to the airport to pick up another car
>tow truck comes, i joke with him in what little italian i know about how silly it is that they send out a tow truck for a flat tyre
>he laughs and agrees
>taxi comes and takes us to the airport
>we get there 5 minutes before they close
>it turns out the girl i was talking to on the phone is behind the counter and her english is much better in person
>she gives me another fully electric car and doesnt charge me for anything

>>2807975
cont.
>the next day we plan to drive for an hour and a half to another beach
>car says we'll have 21% battery when we get there, enough to find a charger and charge it for the drive back
>never charged an electric car before and have no idea how it works
>do some quick due diligence before we leave
>read somewhere that it only takes 20 minutes to charge fully
>drive to the beach
>3/4 of the way there and the battery is already at 21%
>not very familiar with electric cars so im starting to wonder if were going to make it
>battery goes down to 19%, then for some reason it goes back up to 21% and stays there for a while
>when we finally arrive its at 18%
>spend most of the day on a ferry going to various beaches
>come back to the car and google a charger nearby
>find one, it doesnt work
>some old guy sees us and runs over to tell us its out of order and theres another one we can try nearby
>we go to that one
>two teslas are using it
>look for another one
>says its going to take like 3 hours to get to 100%
>not sure how much battery we'll need to make it back since the battery level was fluctuating when it got to around 20%
>we leave it on charge and go and get dinner
>come back an hour later and the cars at 40%
>were on a tight schedule, have to make it back before 8pm to board our ferry
>we wait a little while longer until its at 50%
>drive back to the airport
>drop the car off, theres ~10% battery left
>go to the port, were 30 minutes late
>boarding is 2 hours prior to departure so its ok
at least now im more familiar with electric cars, but i was so relieved to be driving a petrol car the next time i hired a car for the drive from pisa > siena > florence.

>>2807982
Yeah anyone who says electric cars are viable are full of shit. The tech is minimum 10 years away from being viable for replacing petrol but even then I’d imagine hydrogen cars will easily overtake electric by the time they can do 600km range and charge in under an hour.

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The primitiveness of America is the first thing I noticed, stepping off the Denver Airport Rail in Aurora onto an illegal trail passing through private property and a cut-open fence.

>>2803643
A prostitute I fucked in kenya claimed she got pregnant from me after a week, then broke into my apartment and stole my passport and documents when I left her on read. I had to pay the police $1000 to arrest her and get my shit back, and make sure she rotted in a cell for a week.

>>2804913
Sometimes the universe (God) provides for you whatever you need most, it was meant to be for you that time.

>>2807070
Why is every autist story usually around not having sex when they could have? jesus christ
Zoomers: please just fuck whenever you can for most guys its once a year even three years unless married stop disrespecting your circumstances. Not just you but everyone in general.

>rent a couple cabin rooms with my gf and two of my female coworkers in the countryside of South Korea
>grill pork belly while we get drunk off soju and beer
>blast music, everyone having a good time in our little grill hut
>notice a man coming out of the grill hut next door with what looks like a tray of shawarma and pita
>oh man I minored in Arabic back in college
>I got this
>go over and introduce myself ahlan wa sahlan habiibii yallah ect.
>meet a dude from palestine, a dude from saudi arabia, a dude from egypt
>bring friends and gf over to their cabin
>ladies already in the room, they are russian women
>share lays chips and some kind of imported wine and talk about a bunch of stuff
>learn that the Arabs are car dealers working in Seoul
>The women with them are all prostitutes
>One of them calls me a bitch in Arabic, somewhat aggressively but also suggestively?
>ignore her
>spend most of my time talking to the Egyptian man who left his family and kid behind so that he could make enough money to send back to support them
>Yin and yang on one of the beds with him as I play some Umm Kulthum off my phone
>Eventually leave with friends, say goodnight to them, pound gf in room and fall into sleep

>>2808129
God doesn't exist the guy just told me an inspirational story. Tell god to fix Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine before he worries about me

not very exciting but here goes

>Xinjiang, China. Summer of this year
>visiting Turpan. really hot, gets up to 44c some days
>visit this ancient Buddhist city destroyed by a muslim warlord
>decide to visit the warlord's grave (mazar), check online, it's near a small village about half an hour's drive away
>try to find it on the map, not marked
>can't find it on satellite view, Chinese internet says you have to get to the village and ask some of the locals to find it
>leave the Buddhist city and ask a cab driver if he can take me to the village
>he says he's busy but his friend will come and do it for me, friend gets there in a big 4x4
>80 yuan for round trip + wait 20 minutes for me to look at the mazar
>we get to the village, all new buildings with no occupants or mud brick houses falling apart
>ask some construction workers where the mazar is, they don't know
>eventually see it about 1km away off the side of the road, no road, driver drives into some poor guy's field to get there
>stops about 300m away and makes me walk over another field to get there
>surrounded with barbed wire and scarves/flowers people have left as memorials. Probably closed because people were worshipping there which is illegal.
>go up and start taking photos, try looking inside etc
>5 minutes later turn around and realise the car is no longer there
>start freaking out because my water is still in the car, there is no clear path into the village, and it is like 38c
>decide to stay there for a little then think about going towards the village
>15 minutes later car comes back a little bit closer
>rush back and drink my water then tell the driver to gtfo back to Turpan

I also saw two police dogs fucking in the middle of the busiest street in Kucha, and about ten policemen mounting a mock raid on the largest mosque in Kashgar at night (with shotguns and riot shields)

>>2803643
On my recent trip to Thailand a ladyboy grabbed my arm offering a massage. Once he realized how sweaty I was he recoiled and said Oh My God in an exaggerated manly American accent

>>2808220
>Gaza
Related to trannyism.
>Sudan
No clue, not my AO. I barely follow DRC.
>Ukraine
Related to tomboy Ayran 1488 gf and casual sex. The very reason the war exists is what you were responding to.
>Japan
Tomboy (Honorary) Ayran 1488 gf'ing, again.
>God doesn't exist
G-d, classic.

>>2808129
>please just fuck whenever you can
"Make love, not war."

Why do you think Democrats push for "free love" and "total war" at the same time?...theyre directly connected. More degeneracy equals more war profiteering, they push one to profit off of the other.

2017 I stayed in Fukuoka in a cheap capsule hotel. It wasn't like the modern ones in Tokyo - your "capsule" was a bunk with a curtain. But it was cheap, and the common room had free 4 litre jugs of suntory. Literally about 10 huge plastic jugs stacked in the corner that guests could help themselves to. Me and a bong get into it, with a few Koreans too. One is sexpat and desperate to go to the whores in Nakasu, but the Brit and I pick up 2 Japanese qts in their thirties from some random club. I’m close to black out drunk but somehow end up with her sitting on my lap out front, then before I knew it we’re in a taxi heading back to the hostel. I make my way to the communal shower and she takes off her panties. Massive MONSTER bush, still the biggest I’ve ever seen - and I’m a conniseour. That’s why I like this story so much.

We go into my "capsule" and start pounding. Korean guy is back from. Nakasu. He opens the curtain and stares while I laugh and keep clapping her ass. I can hear the Bong next door doing the same. We continue pounding our pieces of Japanese meat in the 8 person dorm while the Korean guys probably stroke their teeny weenies. Just another average night as a white man in Japan (8 years ago, God help you now).

>>2808521
>God help you now
Yep. Those days are truly over.

>>2808128
An expensive lesson. Don't bring whores to your residence.
>>2808334
Free love is history. Women don't give out sympathy fucks to low-value males anymore.

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I met a 50 year old van woman in Slab City going for a bath in the irrigation canal and decided to join her. She had a buzzcut, a boyish body and dressed like a man, but her pussy was clearly visible through the holes in the swimsuit. Got me rather excited. She told me a story about how she needs to go to town for a job interview but doesn't have enough money for gas. I put $30 of gas in her tank, then we returned to Slab City and ended up tangled up in the back with the door open.

Then some other dude popped his head in the van. Turns out she had accepted a prom date invitation from a gray-haired cuck earlier. He was very disappointed to see the woman he was mooning over getting casually intimate with a random drifter half her age. At the prom night party, I let him dance with her, but she was clearly not interested in him anymore and returned to me. Unfortunately, she had cooked up some onion and potato mix with red wine on the stovetop earlier, which gave her really bad breath. I simply couldn't get close without being revolted by the smell. She sensed the rejection and grew cold. I tried flirting with a younger girl from LA, but she turned me down bluntly.

Thus I fumbled my first intimate encounter with an interested woman at age 22. I'd go on to start work in west Texas and fumble half a dozen more chances with my coworkers before finally getting my tip wet seventeen months later at age 24 with a much younger, shorter and plumper girl who had zero personality whatsoever. What a letdown.

>>2808583
>Free love is history.
Lol, wut? This is the most promiscuous era in hueman history with on-demand sex ordering service apps.
>Women don't give out sympathy fucks to low-value males anymore.
>>>/r9k/
...to think a bunch of hippies having drug fueled orgies was "sympathy fucks to low-value males", lol...holy shit youre cringe.

>>2807154
You should’ve asked to warm up at her hostel before heading back. Her response would’ve indicated how far you could go with her.

>>2807154
Rookie mistake. But it's alright to be a rookie. The important thing is that you learn from it. Next time do something like what >>2808644 suggested. I suggest practicing on really easy looking chicks until you become confident enough to try it on girls you actually like.

>>2808644
>>2808648
Should've added
>indicated it was a women's only hostel and was a first time international traveler who wanted to feel safe
I never actually checked if it actually was, but they exist in Iceland so I just took her word for it. Anyways, other story.
>Fucking about in NYC while on "layover" from the Iceland trip on my way back home
>Bar crawled, went to AMC Lincoln Square to see a movie, and then pass the fuck out during the 2nd one I was gonna see just to not have to pay for a hotel and not be zombie mode
>visit a semi-well known bar in the area for meme reasons
>actually cool people in there, local New Yorkers who offered to let me tag with them
>Go bar crawling in Manhattan around Christmas time in absolute shit weather with all the rats scurrying around
>New Yorker offers coke, decline because I'd probably fucking die, but instead buys me a sandwich before saying goodbye
>Sober up while taking night photography of downtown Manhattan at 3AM
Genuinely shocked I didn't at least get questioned by a cop out there, but it was pretty fun. Definitely caught something though because about a week later I was bedridden and could barely move around during Christmas while visiting family. Needless to say, buy a hotel room anons.

>>2803663
haha

>cruised into Morelia, Michoacan in my Arizona-plated vehicle
>signed up for language classes, around $200 USD for 20 hours of small group instruction
>the program included a language exchange at a local cafe
>everyone treated us two gringos like a star, we hardly even got to practice our Spanish because they all wanted to speak English and ask about life in America
>a tall skinny Mexican girl flirted with me, but I was pissed about some cash that had gone missing from my sock and a smashed mirror on my truck and couldn't respond properly
>she gave me a passionate hug and kiss out of the blue before we parted ways and I continued north into Guanajuato
BTW I was a 23 year old virgin and this was my first extended solo foreign trip.

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Is there a point to exploring Mexico further when there are so many other countries to visit? Probably not. My willingness to enter spic cartel country has declined a lot in recent years.

>>2813009
>Is there a point to exploring Mexico further when there are so many other countries to visit? Probably not. My willingness to enter spic cartel country has declined a lot in recent years.
Give it a rest.
Switch to Costa Rica. It's got a dozen microclimates and lots to see because some much of it became protected parkland.

>>2814830
did you die

>>2814838
From what I hear, the cost of visiting CR is very high, and crime has also skyrocketed in recent years. Street robbers and snatch thieves are even worse than drunk cartel thugs cruising around in their pickup trucks, IMO.

I was out walking around in Malaga looking for a clothing store I saved on Google maps. I ended up in the locals part of town which was a little ghetto. I see this ambulance roaring down a side street at 60 miles an hour with a shitty 50cc motorcycle following close behind. The two people on the motorcycle are a young couple. The girl is not wearing a helmet. And suddenly right in front of me, the ambulance smashes into a car that was turning and then the motorcycle clips the ambulance and both riders going flying off the bike. Somehow, the two riders both end up in the only patch of grass in the entire fucking city. They stand up and both of them look fine. The whole front of the ambulance is crushed in and smoke is billowing out. The ambulance driver gets out, looks at the front of his car, gets back in the ambulance and just drives off without a word. The car he hit is totaled, but the driver of that car looks fine too. And I went on my merry way.

>>2808043
>Denver
>primitive
kek

>>2803922
That shit looks so out of place. Why not just have these guys posted at the stops?

Currently am on a road trip in Albania and Corfu in a rented Golf. Did something pretty stupid and chose a "scenic" route over some wetlands in northern part of Albania. Soon after going on that road I wished I have turned back because it was basically offroad. With some very careful driving I've managed to get in the clear relatively unscathed. Shortly after that, the red oil indicator appeared, but I had no choice but to press on, as I was still in the middle of nowhere. After an hour of chatting with the rental firm which assured me that this is normal and it is just the faulty electrics I drove off again praying to all the gods that this is true. Thankfully, they were telling the truth because otherwise I wouldn't be sharing this story. Looking back at that road and the ground clearance of the Golf, I have no idea how I managed it.

STOP RENTING ELECTRIC SHITTERS.
STOP BUYING ELECTRIC SHITTERS.

>>2816690
Americans are primitives so yes.

>be at bar of fancy hotel in NY near closing time
>order tea for my mom
>no, we only serve that for people sitting at a table
such freedom
The other bartender served us just fine on the other nights.

>>2816690
Middle America is a lot more primitive and sparsely developed than many Europeans think. Wouldn't be surprised if the majority of your typical heartland American city by area is vacant space. Lawns, medians, rights of way, parking lots, roads.

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>>2817512
I was laughing that the retard said he got off the light rail from Denver international in Aurora and thought he was in a primitive land, and Colorado is more developed and has higher HDI than Germany and 90% of Europe.

>>2816899
But was it scenic?

I got my dick sucked by a danish girl in the lounge bathroom at my hostel in Amsterdam

almost fought a zesty nigga in Little Rock Arkansas. He was staring at me when I was leaving the Bill Clinton library and got aggressive when I stared back

When I was vacationing in north shore Minnesota I was walking back to the cottage in the middle of the night from my aunt's and saw what looked like a puppy run across the road a few yards away. I thought nothing of it and only realized later that it was a bear cub and mama bear could have been nearby and mauled me

I hooked up with a jewish chick in Edinbruhhhh and the next day got invited out to go rock climbing with her. we went up Arthur's Seat together too. She had nice long curly light brown hair and big booba. May have knocked her up but I'm stateside now and shes back in Israel. messaged a bit on whatsapp and she mentioned she was pregnant. the timeline kind of lines up but who knows

In Alaska I was fishing on a lake near Anchorage and some other fisherman that was fly fishing nearby accidentally hooked a duckling, which I helped unhook and gave it back to the mother duck which quacked very happily and they all swam away

>>2807918
Based kid, fuck tripfags

>>2803643
I clogged the toilet in the visitors center of the Budapest Parliament building and left as fast as I could

>>2820746
Cool stories, bro

>>2821636
Peak Amerishart moment.
>>2818040
Coloradans are much richer than Europoors, which skews the HDI. The entire state of Colorado has only four intercity trains a day passing through (destinations Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago). My town hasn't even completed the sidewalk along Main Street yet, and bike paths are limited to a double-painted white line along a few roadsides.

>took a cruise to Alaska back in high school with a friend and our families
>it lands in some Alaskan port I forget
>we couldnt do any excursions so we just decide to walk along the coast
>the stones are all perfect for skipping so we skip stones for a while
>12, 13 skips, this was some top tier skipping
>walk a little further down the shore
>incidentally it is low tide
>soon we are surrounded on all sides by amazing tide pools
>neon green, blue, orange anemones open and feeding in the pools all over the place
>1 foot diameter Bat Stars everywhere
>Sun Stars 2 feet across everywhere, purple and orange
>sea cucumbers everywhere
>crabs, shrimp, fish, eel-like fish everywhere
>look up at the water
>a pod of 3-4 orca are breaching maybe 100 feet away offshore
>a bald eagle soars overhead and lands on a nearby tree to top it all off (these fuckers are everywhere in Alaska)
>walk back down the shore
>look closely at the water off the dock
>its filled with round white dots
>realize that the dots are jellyfish
>jellyfish as far as the eye can see down into the clear waters of the fjord in the midday sun

Alaska is absolutely beautiful. What we did was way better than some gay zipline through fog (which was right nearby). We could hear the people ziplining as we walked down the coast. They will never know what its like to make a sea cucumber squirt. Those poor fools.

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November 2021 I was hanging around Corpus Christi as part of an aimless cruise around Texas. Camping on the beach on Mustang Island (it's free and legal). Port Aransas was a sleepy little beach town that was comfortable to relax around, even if the library ladies seemed rather sour about a vagabond bum hanging out to use their WiFi. There is a free ferry from Port Aransas to Aransas Pass, Texas. I rode across and stopped to walk around the town. In the park, some old drunk guy said "hi" to me and I stopped to chat. Shortly afterwards, his friends showed up. A bunch of lowlifes they were. Despite there being a public bathroom literally five yards away, one guy whipped out his pecker in full view of the playground and began urinating. Some other guy came over and yelled at him, said the usual dad shit "if you did that in front of my kids" yada yada. Then he looked up and noticed that he was antagonizing some really unsavory characters and decided to walk away.

One of the guys was a felon recently released from prison, a rather beefy mutt with Native American admixture who showed up with something like five liter bottles of Steel Reserve. For whatever reason, we got to chatting and he told me about some nightclubs in Corpus, as well as some bars in Ingleside (a nearby town). I told him I was down to cruise around doing some drinking, so that's what we did. The Ingleside bars were boring as fuck. A few friend groups, zero single ladies in evidence. So we decided to go on to Corpus and see if we could get into the nightclubs.

Unfortunately, the guy had no idea where the clubs were. He only wanted to ride around drinking his Steel Reserve, and I began to get pretty distrustful. After all, my van was my home, with everything I owned inside, and next to me was an ex-con with nothing to lose whose motives were unreadable.

He got out to piss, then continued directing me down roads that eventually had us making a complete circle around the city. At this time I was getting kinda angry with him and felt like he was fucking with me, buying time and seeing how far he could push me. The second time he got out to piss in a vacant parking lot of an abandoned store, I got out too and saw that he was pissing on my van's front tire. That was it. I was going to get rid of this guy, and he wasn't the type to listen to someone saying "get the fuck out of my car dude". Back in my van, I hit the "lock" button, then immediately reached over and pulled the passenger door closed. Then I put her in reverse and backed up with the steering wheel turned fully to the left. He failed to move from where he was standing, and my front bumper hit him in the legs and bowled him over on his ass. I circled around the parking lot toward the exit and passed him standing still and staring at me in shocked angry disbelief as I drove away with his last two Steel Reserve beers.

Somehow, this incident didn't teach me not to associate with unsavory characters. In the coming months, I had a drunk duo I had been hanging out with for a few hours clumsily try to grab the wallet out of my pocket in a back alley of Tuxtepec at 3 AM. Then a few weeks later, I got violently ejected from a house party by a furious drug dealer in Xalapa at 1 AM. Both times, I was looking to buy drugs, both times I failed to do so, and both times the Mexican police came up on me shortly after I left - but didn't search or detain me, as if they knew that I had failed in my mission.

This trio of kinetic situations at last drilled the lesson into my head that solitude was a better choice than associating with the kind of scumbags who are desirous of my company.

>>2808521
>Fukuoka

Based. I partied in Tenjin many a night back in the early 2000’s and you’re right. God it was so easy back then as a white dude, I literally got picked up off the street by jap girls driving by in cabs. Zoomers don’t believe my stories. I wouldn’t believe them either.

more stories, please

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posted before in a biking thread that went nowhere

>trying to do onomichi to imabari in a day to go over all the bridges and see the towel museum
>after the second bridge weather takes a turn and starts pouring
>on the downhill after the third bridge i fly over my handlebars and take a chunk out of my left hand
>bleeding profusely i make it down to the 7/11 at the base of the bridge and ask the girl working for the “ichiban big bandaid-o”
>scare a guy trying to come into the bathroom as each time i try and clean out my wound i yelp from the pain
>still manage to enjoy kousanji temple before needing to get on the ferry back to onomichi

picrel is some shitty みかん drink with blood coming through my patch job

>>2803663
What a waste

>>2803643
>In Burger King King, Thailand
>Hostel has tons of Dutch fags
>Meet hot dutch girl
>We play footsie under table whole night while getting closer and closer
>Arm around her, group decides to go out to bar hop
>Haven't slept in 36 hours
>heavy drinking
>I fall asleep at table
>Go back alone
>Sleep in hostel
>Wake up, see dutch qt3.14
>Lost interest because of last night
>Almost salvaged it, but ended up partying too hard with Britbros and ended up partying until I literally developed psychosis and totally depersonalized
>Turns out drinking 40 bottles of Chang over day and a half mixed with jetlag, and lack of sleep doesn't bode well for body.
>Miss chance, and have to fly home on emergency because I'm going fucking insane and have liver pain out my shit

Fucking glad I'm just slightly older. Retarded of me, should've taken it slow and banged dutch girl and proceed to travel all of Thailand with her. Moral is to not overdo yourself, you aren't invincible. Others can do Meth, stay up for a week, drink every day, eat like shit, have crazy sex, and party at super loud clubs all day. I certainly can't and have since learned my limit very well.

>>2804191
It used to be Elvis Presley when I said Memphis

>>2804512
Holy shit you suck as a person, and I mean in a situational awareness kind of way too. How have you lasted this long

Shared it here about 6-7 months ago, maybe in this very thread. I barged into some kind of really, really long Greek Orthodox church service in Greece and was kind of wandering around with a plastic bag filled with energy drinks while the service was going on. No idea what I was thinking and I was dressed like an American tourist. One time in Oxford I got pick-pocketed by what appeared to be gypsies. One time I got blacked out in Swansea and another blacked out guy flicked a cigarette at me and then I talked to his friend and he said it was because of my jacket. I'd bought a leatherman jacket from Super Dry. I've been mildly harassed in the UK at a rate that puts American cities to shame. Also had terrible Airbnb experiences there. But I love it there. But I'm not going back any time soon.

>>2807117
Lucky you didn’t get the brig. A teenager on a cruise rite of passage

>>2807154
>northern lights
>excited southern girl noises
YOURE SUPPOSED TO KISS HER DAMMIT

>>2826686
You are a lucky guy!

>>2827028
Even fending off an aggressive dog in public can be interpreted as a domestic attack justifying lethal force in the US. I have a sixth sense when things are about to turn south, and I begin walking away right before the storm bursts.

>>2826686
>Why are you doing the needful, saar?

>>2826815
Instead you could have taken literal micrograms of a substance and have had a far more lucid experience.

Drunk hostel girls are all neurotic as fuck, that's why they're single.

Did I tell you about the one who tried to make out with me drunk as a skunk, and then wiped her ass on the dorm bathroom's hand towel in the morning due to a lack of toilet paper? Imagine not bringing your own in your pocket when you're going to take a shit in a hostel. How First World clueless are you?

>>2827069
That's a good point. Different kinds of violence and lawsuits here vs there. I'm going to bet there are more fistfights per capita (among non ethnic minorities) in the UK vs US though. More directly confrontational, if only verbally most of the time, there vs. posturing as biker gang members/cowboys we do here was my impression. Might be way off but I feel uncomfortable and sized up/scrutinized when I'm over there.

>>2827079
It always escalates to a shooting in America these days. Two dudes had a road dispute on a highway half an hour north of my town, and one dude shot the other dead. He was arrested shortly afterward and charged with second degree murder.

>>2803643
>go to Vietnam first time doing hostels
>twenty nine years old then
>miss hostel breakfast that’s included
>russian guy then 26 asks if I want to go to breakfast around the corner at a place he knows
>he missed breakfast too
>we sit down and eat and within two mins he asks if I’ve tried any of the local girls
>I say no
>he goes on to say that he’s been in the country three years starting in Covid times and has never left
>…yada yada etc but his first time with a local woman was with a girl he met in a bar and then took on three dates
>he had seggs with her on the third date and then did so a few more times
>until she told him one time — I have something to tell you
>im underaged (he said she was like seventeen)
>then his immediate thought was she was blackmailing him so he beat her with an open palm and his passport in his hand
>I responded saying that’s crazy
>told a few other travellers the next day after he left the hostel
>they freaked out saying I should report him
>they didn’t like me after I didn’t pursue that avenue
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>staying at a "hostel alternative" in Hawaii
>an alternative to a hostel, which is already an alternative to a hotel
>sharing a room with two Japanese tourists and a Vietnam War veteran
>I'm not Japanese, but I am Asian
>we somehow didn't trigger the nam vet's PTSD

>my last day arrives
>staying at the hostel alternative until it's time to go to the airport
>one of the Japanese tourists tells me not to go
>"Aww, are you gonna miss me?"
>"No, it's that you shouldn't be drinking and driving!"
>"I'm not drinking."
>"You're drinking right now!"
>I'm drinking picrel
>I guess it does kind of look like a can of beer, especially if you're unfamiliar with the brand
>"This isn't beer, this is tea."
>she actually goes "EEEEEEEEEHHHHH?" like an anime character
>didn't know that was a thing they actually say
>she grabs my can and sees the word "Tea"
>"Why is this tea so big?!"
>"Welcome to America."

>>2827531
>she
did you fuck her? If not, why not?

>go to China first time
>land in Shanghai at midnight after 18 hours of flying
>tired as hell, give up on trying to figure out metro
>guy with Didi/Uber lanyard at exit tells me taxis are over here
>get scammed by fake taxi at airport, $40 gone
>learn how to use Gaode maps

>after 2 days, fly to Beijing
>first day, visit giant imperial palace starting at 9am
>theres multiple encompassed security control zones separating different areas
>leave my bag to go check out Mao's mausoleum
>go to Tiananmen Square, entered the imperial palace nex- SHIT LEFT MY BAG
>already past the one way gate, but info desk says I can easily exit and pick up my bag
>decide to just commit to imperial palace tour and then leave early to get my bag
>walk around the Forbidden City with hot milk tea in hand, feeling like a king
>after 10 miles and 4 hours of the greatest museum of my life, im tired as hell, 2 hours left until closing
>try getting back to bag check area, the info desk lied, ended up walking another 2 miles around the entire palace only to be left outside the security zone
>feet hurt like hell, 1 hour left, in a rush decide to take a nearby parked taxi to go back to security zone entrance
>taxi was a $30 scam, gives me an unwanted tour for 10 minutes
>drops me off at the EXACT OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE SECURITY ZONE ENTRANCE
>spend the next 40 minutes running around Tiananmen Square, begging guards for directions, half of them laugh and just point
>beg security zone guards to let me in, they do
>get to my bag 2 minutes before closing, 14 miles of pain endured
>feet blistered for the rest of the month trip in China
>finish the day by eating a giant plate of kung pao chicken and roast duck

Genuinely one of the best days of my life

>December 2021
>in NYC, late 20s
>bar hop in Greenwich, end up in an Irish pub chilling
>turns into a nightclub at a moment's notice
>start dancing with an NYU girl who tries to teach me a dance she called "the spongebob" and spent a few hours hanging with me and her friends
>too drunk to understand, thought she was messing with me
>ended up leaving to smoke with randos even though I don't smoke
>wake up realizing she was into me and I was an idiot
>the day after that I was sick as fuck from Covid and spent a week coughing up my lung