Comments on: Travel Stories

By: Bluefish

Bluefish — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 03:43:23 +0000

Oh mon Dieu, j’ai completement oublie d’ecrire une article sur ce sujet. Je vais la faire des que possible. Desolee.

By: Linguist-in-Waiting

Linguist-in-Waiting — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 04:07:47 +0000

I have published mine! It’s my post for January 30th. Enjoy.

By: Zhu

Zhu — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:43:08 +0000

@Gail at Large — Lucky you! I now Iceland is supposed to be crazy expensive (luckely, compact enough too!)… what a great birthday present! Traveling sometimes really dependsa on who you meet and on the chances you take.

@Bluefish — Waiting for it!

@Angela May — I´m sorry to say I laughed out loud when trying to imaginate you hauling the luggage, trying to cross the chaotic streets! That´s a good story. We have all made the mistake of taking too much luggage… I usually just take a backpack but I had a suitcase my first trip to China and I learned from my mistake.

@Gabriel — Macho style! Ah these Argentinians… I can just imagine how you must have looked. You know, we are in Tierra Del Fuego right now (I´m a couple of posts behind on the blog) and I see these backpackers wearing nothing but sandals and shorts. Seriously… talk about hypothermia…

Thanks for the award, I will pick it up!

@Kirsten — I going to read that right now!

@DianeCA — Ah, these picture addicts!v We go to great lenght for a good one, don´t we! I´m a bit claustrophobic and I can just imagine. Brrrrr!

@RennyBA — Renny, the subject of a good story

@Seraphine — It makes sense, although it is hard to imagine for me because I grew up by the sea. Good story!

@Tulsa Gentleman — I guess it is a sure way to make people pay! I have never seen that before though. I hope you thanked your friend .-)

@Agnes — I am waiting!

@Linguist-in-Waiting — Alright!

By: Zhu

Zhu — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:34:43 +0000

Thank you all for the stories! We are in Patagonia right now and my Internet connexion isn´t that great, hence the no reply yet. Getting there… thanks for your patience!

By: Linguist-in-Waiting

Linguist-in-Waiting — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:47:21 +0000

You gave me an idea for my next post! I will let you know when I have it posted.

By: Agnes

Agnes — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:02:33 +0000

oh this should be interesting!! I’ll have to come back to read all the comments… I am such a sucker for great travel stories

By: Tulsa Gentleman

Tulsa Gentleman — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:23:01 +0000

I love to travel and have lots of stories I guess. A quick one that happened log ago was when I was still in the army stationed in San Antonio Texas in 1966. I made a friend named Andras who was a Hungarian who grew up in Chili (long story). We decided to drive my car to the border town of Piedras Negras for a 3 day weekend. We parked the car on the street in front of our hotel and walked everywhere. There was a parking meter which we fed coins on Friday and Saturday. Sunday we figured was free like at home.

When we came out on Sunday morning to start back we discovered that my license plate was missing. Andras asked a boy on the street what happened to our tag and he explained that the police had it. This was their way to insure that we paid our fine before we drove back across the border.

We walked to the police station and my friend told me to wait outside while he talked to the cops. He disappeared into the station and after a few minutes I could hear loud laughter, then he came out with my tag. He said it was OK, he just explained to them that I was crazy. Whatever he said, it worked.

As we drove back to the hotel for our bags we saw the policeman crouching down behind another car removing its license tag. On his hip in a leather holster was a screwdriver and a pair of pliers instead of a pistol. Live and learn.

By: Seraphine

Seraphine — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:54:59 +0000

when we first moved to california from idaho, my parents came to visit. my mother had never flown in an airplane before.
when we went to the beach, she started crying. i asked, mom are you ok? she hadn’t ever seen the ocean either.
she was surprised by the sound of the ocean. until then, i had ever thought about the noise the ocean makes.
now whenever i hear the ocean, i think of my mother.

By: RennyBA

RennyBA — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:55:20 +0000

Well told dear Diane — I could not said it better myself

By: DianeCA

DianeCA — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:51:20 +0000

In 2006 my mom came to visit us and we wanted to give her a grand tour of the mountains and fjords on the west coast of Norway. We decided to drive from Oslo to Bergen along a very scenic old mountain road which winds through the beautiful mountain landscape.

Crazy as Renny is about photography we had to stop all over the place to take pictures of the landscape, the fjords, waterfalls, and even the snow topped plateau. You can see his pics here. At one point there was a nice wide new tunnel and beside it was ‘the old road tunnel’. Renny decided to explore the old road tunnel just for his idea of fun!!

The tunnel was one lane, almost a little less then one lane if you ask me…totally black dark and so narrow I don’t think we could have opened the doors. I was so afraid that some other crazy Norwegian might also use this tunnel and be coming the other way. I began begging him, and in the end had a total Closter phobic fit so that in the end Renny had to back the car out of the tunnel again because I refused to go any further!!

My youngest son who was sitting in the back seat thought the whole ordeal was totally cool! He said “Wow mom, you really had a cow!” then I laughed and said, “Yes, I think that would be THE definition of having a cow!” Thankfully Renny kept to the new tunnels for the rest of the trip and no more cows were needed.