Yep there is always a day in a vacation where you ask yourself, what did I just do? Once it was going to stay with a new friend at the family’s small hotel. Sounded great. I would help out with the lunch shift and they would let me stay for free. Woke up the middle of the first night when it sounded like WW3 had started. Apparently the parents liked to get drunk and fight. She didn’t mention that part. Then there was the time we were on a island country and the non-regulated taxi was taking us to an authentic cuisine restaurant. He had driven us around the previous day and seemed ok. This night he needed to refill the car with gas. He drove into what looked like closed gas station and when he started to fill up a group of young men materialized. But they just joked with him and we went on our way - was his younger brother and friends. So a few scary moments but they didn’t turn out to be anything. They did however make us think twice about trying our luck. Still seem to end up in those types of situations though. I’m guess I’m a relatively trusting soul.
For me, it was hiking to a waterfall in Costa Rica with no food and only one bottle of water. THANK FUCK it rained; we would have been in trouble if I couldn’t have had sips of water from the leaves to stay hydrated, and if the temperature had stayed as high as it was.
Similar problem for me in Kakadu in 48 degree heat. Went for a little 1 kilometre walk with a bottle of Coke Zero, no water. Almost passed out from heatstroke 50 metres from the van when coming back. There was nobody else around, I would have been fucked.
Yep there is always a day in a vacation where you ask yourself, what did I just do? Once it was going to stay with a new friend at the family’s small hotel. Sounded great. I would help out with the lunch shift and they would let me stay for free. Woke up the middle of the first night when it sounded like WW3 had started. Apparently the parents liked to get drunk and fight. She didn’t mention that part. Then there was the time we were on a island country and the non-regulated taxi was taking us to an authentic cuisine restaurant. He had driven us around the previous day and seemed ok. This night he needed to refill the car with gas. He drove into what looked like closed gas station and when he started to fill up a group of young men materialized. But they just joked with him and we went on our way - was his younger brother and friends. So a few scary moments but they didn’t turn out to be anything. They did however make us think twice about trying our luck. Still seem to end up in those types of situations though. I’m guess I’m a relatively trusting soul.
For me, it was hiking to a waterfall in Costa Rica with no food and only one bottle of water. THANK FUCK it rained; we would have been in trouble if I couldn’t have had sips of water from the leaves to stay hydrated, and if the temperature had stayed as high as it was.
Similar problem for me in Kakadu in 48 degree heat. Went for a little 1 kilometre walk with a bottle of Coke Zero, no water. Almost passed out from heatstroke 50 metres from the van when coming back. There was nobody else around, I would have been fucked.