Travel adventures

GotThatSwing · Post by **GotThatSwing** » 11 Feb 2011, 15:05

I guess it's not only my case that when I travel most crazy and weird things happen. Share your crazy adventures that you had while travelling

StephenKingman · Post by **StephenKingman** » 11 Feb 2011, 15:11

Walking through Times Square at 1am with a huge poster of the movie Chicago under my arm, chewing on pizza and laughing with my brother and being accosted by a guy who wanted us to "Laugh Laugh Laugh tonight at Planet Hollwood, live comedy" was a pretty bizarre and strange experience i must say...

GotThatSwing · Post by **GotThatSwing** » 11 Feb 2011, 15:18

You could go. It might be even more bizzare

I was on work&travel in US and when I went with a friend to Florida, we took a bus to Key West, there were like ten people in the bus so we took two seats each in front of each other and went to sleep. Suddenly I hear my frinds sleepy, dreamy, surprised voice "Agnieszka, look what a handsome guy is sitting behind you!!!" I look around, the guy become all red and runs in the end of the bus and I hear he starts talking in Polish to his friends. That was funny

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 11 Feb 2011, 15:26

On the Greek island of Santorini visiting a winery (what else!) my mate & I got accidentally mixed up with a German tour group. The tour guide obviously told some joke & they all started to laugh, as we did out of politeness ... my mate nudged me and muttered 'that was a good one, funny crowd the Germans I thought they never laughed'.

Funny bit was neither of us had any German. The tour guide could well have been asking 'how did those two edgits get mixed up with a German tour' for all we knew.

But we had a great day & Santorini is a heavenly island & the wine isn't bad either.

andr70 · Post by **andr70** » 14 Feb 2011, 05:55

I suppose that the most strange and amazing things will happen in the future with me. I would name my adventure experience with words 'nothing special'. May be I'm the most boring person in the world....

Jamankhan · Post by **Jamankhan** » 27 Feb 2011, 06:31

I wouldn't say that either is better or worse that the other in my experience. I enjoy travel - sometimes alone and other times with friends. In the past 4 or 5 months, I've been to Oktoberfest with a friend from Italy, to the truffle festival in San Miniato and to London with two Italians visiting a friend there. I've also been to the Netherlands, various places here in Italy including the Eurochocolate festival in Perugia, and Germany on my own.

Stinkin' Fascist · Post by **Stinkin' Fascist** » 28 Feb 2011, 14:34

While in Bogota, Colombia I had 2 gaminas (street kids that will kill you for 1 peso...) come up to me because I was standing off to the side of my uncle, so I was watching them through my camera haha, and took a picture!
Then my uncle ran up and deterred them... Too bad, I was really looking forward to an 'interaction.'
And apparently it's crazy to take a picture of them haha, everyone laughed at me!

Then in Las Vegas, this SUPER big black guy was handing out cards to my sister's friend and I and I told him to F off haha, then he followed us and said I'd at least be good on stage if I wouldn't watch... o_O Maybe not my best idea haha.

StephenKingman · Post by **StephenKingman** » 28 Feb 2011, 15:58

Stinkin' Fascist wrote:While in Bogota, Colombia I had 2 gaminas (street kids that will kill you for 1 peso...) come up to me because I was standing off to the side of my uncle, so I was watching them through my camera haha, and took a picture!
Then my uncle ran up and deterred them... Too bad, I was really looking forward to an 'interaction.'
And apparently it's crazy to take a picture of them haha, everyone laughed at me!

Then in Las Vegas, this SUPER big black guy was handing out cards to my sister's friend and I and I told him to F off haha, then he followed us and said I'd at least be good on stage if I wouldn't watch... o_O Maybe not my best idea haha.

We cant bring you anywhere

BookWorm617 · Post by **BookWorm617** » 28 Feb 2011, 17:35

I decided about 6 years ago to take a trip to Montana to visit my pregnant friend. I got my best friend to go with me. I live in New Jersey so it was a long flight with a layover in between.

Anyway I am deathly afraid of flying but I get through the first leg pretty okay. Then we get to Minnesota and get on the next flight. My friend was sitting about 4 rows behind me which kinda freaked me out.

As the plane starts to taxi out I stand up turn around to my friend and yell "I need to get off this f'ing plane right now". Her eyes get all wide and she says "sit down it's ok". So I do.

There was this old man sitting next to me I was so close to him that I was practically sitting on his lap. I think he felt bad, he kept looking at me and smiling. It was quite tramatic.

Almost forgot the part on the first flight I had horrible diarrhea because of the anxiety. So I went to the bathroom towards the front of the plane and my friend was like what is wrong with you those bathrooms are for the first class passengers. I was like F that I gotta go and I can't make it all they way to the back of the plane. Those people are just going to have to deal with it.

Stinkin' Fascist · Post by **Stinkin' Fascist** » 03 Mar 2011, 00:12

Haha I can go everywhere Mike! It makes for an entertaining trip

Goodness, that sounds like quite the disastrously or almost disastrously trip.

StephenKingman · Post by **StephenKingman** » 13 Mar 2011, 10:40

Well i just had a great travel adventure in Orlando, Florida. Been swung upside down and inside out so many times the past week my brains have dislodged slightly so i will need some cocoa and a few days rest! It was absolutely brilliant fun though, i havent laughed so hard or been so thrilled in a very long time. The Disney theme parks and Universal parks are truly amazing and magical places, very hard to describe until you have been there but suffice to say its exactly like walking into every childhood dream you ever had. I was like a 5yr old all over. Special mentions go to:

1. The Revenge of the Mummy roller coaster- did this 9 times in 2 days i loved it so much.
2. The Hulk roller coaster- a G-force experience like no other, the very definition of thrilling
3. The front seat of the Khengail coaster in Busch Gardens, suspended 200 feet over the park before that final hurtle-terrifying.
4. The people in Florida being generally very helpful and friendly.

The only downsides were the poor transport system to popular spots like Daytona Beach and the fact that Americans use the word "Awesome" for absolutely everything good bad or indifferent, got tired of hearing it after 2 days!

Weather was very nice though.mostly about 30 degrees and i had a lovely return to Eire this morning- zero degrees, its good to be home ha.

So did i miss any scandal?

<starts to trawl through forum>

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 13 Mar 2011, 11:13

Welcome home Mike .... certainly sound like you had a ball.
Planning started for the next holiday no doubt

StephenKingman · Post by **StephenKingman** » 13 Mar 2011, 12:38

Ill give it a few weeks Fran, need to get used to walking in a straight line again! Great fun though.

Stinkin' Fascist · Post by **Stinkin' Fascist** » 15 Mar 2011, 14:57

StephenKingman wrote:Well i just had a great travel adventure in Orlando, Florida. Been swung upside down and inside out so many times the past week my brains have dislodged slightly so i will need some cocoa and a few days rest! It was absolutely brilliant fun though, i havent laughed so hard or been so thrilled in a very long time. The Disney theme parks and Universal parks are truly amazing and magical places, very hard to describe until you have been there but suffice to say its exactly like walking into every childhood dream you ever had. I was like a 5yr old all over. Special mentions go to:

1. The Revenge of the Mummy roller coaster- did this 9 times in 2 days i loved it so much.
2. The Hulk roller coaster- a G-force experience like no other, the very definition of thrilling
3. The front seat of the Khengail coaster in Busch Gardens, suspended 200 feet over the park before that final hurtle-terrifying.
4. The people in Florida being generally very helpful and friendly.

The only downsides were the poor transport system to popular spots like Daytona Beach and the fact that Americans use the word "Awesome" for absolutely everything good bad or indifferent, got tired of hearing it after 2 days!

Weather was very nice though.mostly about 30 degrees and i had a lovely return to Eire this morning- zero degrees, its good to be home ha.

So did i miss any scandal?

<starts to trawl through forum>

You know how much it is to go to Disneyland over here in Cali?
$91 a ticket haha, and passes still have blackout dates.

Hey, it's America, do you really expect people to be authentic?
We're pretty sarcastic too, awesome serves as everything haha.
I'm just hoping you didn't hear salty, hot, fab, and some other toootttaaalllllyyyyy ridiculous airhead terms. Well then again, you'd probably just be subjected to that torture in California... Ugh.

StephenKingman · Post by **StephenKingman** » 15 Mar 2011, 15:34

^ Ha ha no just the awesome word over and over but i got used to it after the first day, then just blanked it out from that day onward. Is the Disney in California good then, how big is it? Disney was a great laugh but if you after thrills only, head to Universal for the roller coasters.