Be honest /trv/, when was the last time you had a true adventure?
I cold-called my best friend from high school who I hadn't talked to in 16 years and invited him to do the craziest thing I could possibly think of. He agreed immediately. It was a great success.
>>2864340What did you do anon?
>>2864346I'm not telling. But I'd say the components which combined to make it good were a) forcing ourselves into a situation of true self-reliance, b) companionship (I haven't had friends since high school so this was a big novelty for me), and c) a creative component -- I'll leave that one purposefully vague.
>>2864340>>2864353I wish I had friends that loyal.My high school friends actually called me a loser because I didn't make any new friends after high school (except at work). I mean, they're right about me being a loser, but I'm a loser for other reasons, not because I valued them too high as friends.
>>28643012022 I walked part of the way of St. James. Took me a little under 2 months for around 800km. I met a lot of great people and it was an incredible feeling to just be a pilgrim experiencing the country. I didn't know in the morning where I was gonna sleep at night. I slept at some of the wildest places, ranging from monasteries to dodgy pubs to farms to under a bridge in my tent. I've never felt more free and at the same time I was very happy when I reached my destination and returned home. A month after my best friend took me with him on a spontaneous trip to Sicily. We didn't research anything, rented a car and explored the island. Many great memories of fantastic food, warm people, incredible views and insane motorists. My friend has since passed away and this trip is my most precious memory with him. I guess if you want adventure don't plan too much. Just do it, doesn't even have to be far from home. The world is vast and wonderful.
>>2864353>I'm not telling.Why the fuck not?
>>2864372Because he has a right to privacy and no one owes you anything.
2023I went on a trip to salt lake city to suprise my friends in a band on their tour. I made a trip out of it and rented a car and spent a few days in salt lake, then moab, then colorado then flew out of Albuquerque. It was the best trip ive done so far because of how varied it was. All i need to do something is a little push. Otherwise i dont have the motivation.
My last buddy adventure trip was in June 2018, when I quit my job in west Texas and ran off to Mexico with a coworker. We got drunk, drove like maniacs and almost got in big trouble a few times. Drove all the way down to the bottom of Copper Canyon on a whim, passed out in the hotel room, then hit the streets at 1 AM to see some guys with rifles dressed in black lounging around their pickup truck. They said "Good morning, Americans". The summer was also a lot of fun. I met some very tolerant, easygoing vagabonds and traveled around Colorado with them, smoking weed and chit-chatting the days away. A couple months later I returned south to the same place to lose my virginity with the chick who was my buddy's girlfriend at the time, kek. That was an adventure in and of itself, as the resort manager and his goons tried his best to get me thrown out of the park, but we kept eluding them with the help of sympathetic friends.But then I woke up in her bed and made a decision. I didn't want any girlfriend or travel buddies or drinking partners or friendzone bitches in my life anymore. I was going to cut a straight line across the path of everyone I met, refusing to let anyone pull me into their orbit. It took about three years to come to terms with this new reality, and then three more years to begin genuinely enjoying the feeling of total autonomy.
>>2864496Sounds like you had a great time and collected some stories to tell the grand kids
>>2864301I tried to illegally immigrate to Uruguay last year but no one would hire me and I started to get paranoid about losing all my savings and having to move back in with my parents and came back home after only 4 months.
Not for years, the world is so much smaller after covid. Nobody has money to travel, many destinations collapsed, borders tightened, visas are harder to get. And when you've been to most of the major destinations, well it becomes harder to plan itineraries.
>>2864698India and China have both relaxed visa requirements since COVID. eVisas are more prevalent than ever before. The world remains full of challenging roads that lead to spectacular places...but everyone's awareness of the world has become limited to the tiny selection of places that are trending on social media. Travelers, loaded with money but pinched for time, increasingly pursue luxury and relaxation in well-known places rather than roughing it on a venture into unfamiliar terrain. ADD brainrot has entrenched itself in the Third World, so you rarely feel like a superstar just for showing up as a white guy anymore. Many people still retain their natural curiosity, it's just more subdued. Plus side is, your social boundaries are respected much more than they used to be.
I have a lot of mini adventures but probably just working illegally in Korea for a decade. My ban should be up now, they gave me five years. I was tutoring kids making great money just didn't want to be tied to a visa or contract, I left by choice because I was over it and new opportunities awaited me.
>>2864301Tried cutting through Syria just as the civil war was starting, to get from Egypt to Turkey overland. Got turned away at the border. Did everything based on a couple of blog/couchsurfing posts saying that visas were a formality, and that everything would be alright.Had some blonde chick and her husband set to host me in Damascus, and was in a taxi from Irbid who agreed to take me up there,kek.
I hunted for 3 weeks out of a backpack in Arizona high desert a few years back. That was pretty fun.
>>2866426Near and Middle East aren't what they used to be. My mum did the hippie trail to Kabul in the 70s and she sometimes talks about how great and open the people were. If you did that today you'd be killed.
>>2864496How did you earned money at that time
>>2866736holy esl
I was smuggled into Laos inside a suitcase
>>2864301In 2017 I went for one month from china - tibet - nepal - india.
I snuck into a dam area today by walking along the lakebed - the lake level was very low due to dry season - and then got caught by security while trying to enter the outlet area. He took my phone and deleted all the photos of the dam, claiming it was a restricted area. Felt pretty defeated on the long walk back to my hotel under the midday sun. >>2868979Did you fly between the various countries/regions or travel overland? After 100 days of meandering around within a small geographical area, I'm ready to strike out for distant objectives and see some new scenery for a change.
It's hard to have real adventure if you like your social interactions to be minimal and unintrusive. Yeah, you can conquer all sorts of terrain, but there's not much of a story to tell afterwards if no human drama is involved. There's only a weathering of the spirit that makes you more set in your ways and less responsive to the overtures of other people. You gain respect from the people around you for your calm and measured behavior, but you lose out on the joy of living with fullness of feeling. >>2866736Park resort jobs were my go-to for three years, until I got tired of being part of a low-achieving group and wanted to go it alone without any external guidance or support.
>>2869516There's really no point in seeing the world if you're alone. Humans are hardwired to seek out social connection.
>>2864301>>2864301>Be honest /trv/, when was the last time you had a true adventure?On Monday with Deutsche Bundesbahn. It's a “dynamic timetable” where you constantly have to deal with logistical problems such as connecting trains, lame lies about delays, creative excuses for why the train isn't coming, and the worst bastards who use stranded passengers as their last chance of the day to hit on them. The trains are full of idiots, crazy guys and girls, and if you plan with the last train of the day (i never do that) you have to spend the night between them at 90% chance.
Just spent a few weeks driving around New Zealand with my wife and it was pretty fun.
>>2869787>On Monday with Deutsche BundesbahnHorribly mismanaged since the privatization. I've travelled by train in a lot of European countries and the DB really stands out as particularly vile. Especially jarring when coming from Switzerland or Austria, where trains are very punctual. Southern Italy is probably the closest to Germany when it comes to train awfulness.
>>2864301The fall of Kabul. I was one of the last civilians out. I saw the hordes of Afghani retards swarming the airport like a zombie apocalypse. There were a couple bombings by "isis" during the turmoil.
>>2869781Indians all want a million friends, true. Northern Europeans are happy with the five or ten people they know, they're not interested in chit chat with strangers.
>>2870073You're referring to scandis, and those people are deranged sociopaths
>>2864371>walked the caminoWould you say its better to bring a tent instead of relying on the hostels?Did you meet and walk with some coolPeople?
>>2870174>Would you say its better to bring a tent instead of relying on the hostels?To be honest I packed a small tent and only used it like 5 times. The infrastructure on the camino in most countries is quite good. Different countries have different solutions of course, so in Germany or Austria you will stay in a lot of smaller private accomodations that you have to book yourself, while in France you stay with private people as well but they often times organize your next night's accomodation for you. And in Spain of course there is a tight net of pilgrim's hostels, especially the last 100km or so. So from my own experience I can tell you that a tent was never necessary, I just used it when I didn't want to spend money or when I was too tired to get to the next village. >Did you meet and walk with some cool People?Absolutely, you meet a lot of people in very different stages of their life on the way and often times you spend a few days with them before one outpaces the other. I met a lovely couple in their 60s who were in peak shape, they mogged me in every way and often times had to slow down to wait for me to catch up. They told the most interesting stories of their adventures together, like kayaking down the Danube to Romania or about their summer house in Istria which they get to by cycling 500km. I also walked two days with a young locksmith who lost his job during covid and then decided to give up his flat and go to Santiago with only a backpack and a tent. Very chill dude who never seemed to run out of weed. I sometimes wonder what happened to him. There are a lot of other people I met, you also meet interesting locals like a 95 year old farmer who still made butter herself and who shared stories about WW2 with me. I could go on for pages.
>>2870466Nice man, thanksIf you have anything else worth mentioning to inform or inspire me, id like to hear it. I was thinking the walk from porto would be cool and shorter
>>2870466WoahYou're making that part of Europe seem awfully idyllic. Forget about the big cities, fast trains, crowds and attitudes. Go trekking across the countryside and live the village life.
>>2864353It was gay sex, wasn't it?
>>2870565Just do it, and do it in spring preferably. Summer in most countries is too hot for comfort, especially when carrying a big backpack. I haven't walked the Camino Portugues so unfortunately I cannot give you any specific tips, but my aunt did the Camino Portugues along the coast a few years back when it wasn't as popular as it is today and she loved it. She's also a crazy person and did it in under a week with only a sleeping bag and no Portuguese, Spanish or even English language skills whatsoever. >>2870681Long distance hiking really gives you a completely new perspective. 30km feels like nothing to us today, but once you spend a few weeks hiking you really appreciate how far that actually is. The most interesting part of walking the camino is being part of a very specific group of people, vagabonds who don't know where to sleep the next day. It's a group that's normally completely invisible unless you yourself are part of it.
