Thread 2831969

Tell me some cool, interesting, funny, scary, or in any way memorable things that happened to you while traveling.

>>2831969 (OP)
Why do you keep posting this every day? Are you trying to write a book and farming ideas? How about this story:
>Suck my dick faggot. I'm not telling you shit

One time in 大阪 I walked into an empty restaurant and ordered dinner without realizing it was a front for ヤクザ. They were confused but did indeed bring me food, hands down the tastiest 餃子 and たこ焼き I've ever had. As I was getting ready to pay three fit guys with sleeve 刺青 tattoos walked out from one of the back rooms and that's when I realized what was going on, I quickly bowed and apologized but they just laughed it off and invited me for a drink. Stayed up sharing stories and drinking 日本酒 'til the early morning, core memory immediately formed.

>>2831969 (OP)
I was detained in a Japanese prison for 273 days where they only fed me COVID-19 infected earthworms for food.

Once I was in <redacted> and did <redacted>, shit was so cash I will never forget that just overall a awesome experience and it costed only <redacted> moneies.

We already have a thread for this:
>>2803643

>>2831988
>t. Paul McCartney

>be me
>burger in don't even remember where, France
>see homeless guy walking up to people asking for money
>comes up to me, asks for money (or I assume he did idk French)
>tell him in French I don't speak the language
>that'll get him off my back
>his face lights up
>"oh you speak English!" In the most normal American voice
>"Uh, yea"
>"sweet, do you have any change on you?"
Should have just told him non

>be myself
>visiting Hong Kong (6 days) and Macau (day trip for sightseeing and casinos)
>first time in Asia, have no clue about rainy season
>it's May
>HK is cloudy and humid but overall a good time
>time for Macau
>take the ferry from HK to the Macau terminal
>quickly realize my eSIM is for HK only and isn't going to work in Macau (I didn't check, just assumed it would)
>load up directions to senado square on public wifi
>bus driver yells at me for trying to use an octopus card (again just assumed it would work)
>eventually make it to the square
>it's absolutely pissing rain
>somehow it's more crowded than anywhere in Hong Kong
>relying on spotty public wifi, moving through slow heavy crowds, all the while rain pouring down on my bald head (I didn't even bring an umbrella)
>after 2 hours all I've managed to see are bits and bobs of Senado square, all shops, buildings, even the sidewalk under any available awning is absolutely PACKED with people, cant even get an egg tart
>decide "fuck this i'm going back to hong kong"
>was hyped to go to the casinos but i'm so fed up at this point i don't even care anymore
>find the bus headed back to the terminal
>probably 30-40 people in line, it's barely moving because every bus that comes is already full and at most 1-2 people can get on at a time.
>"this place is a fucking nightmare" i say to myself
>decide to try my luck at another bus stop
>walk around until i see another bus stop that has "terminal" written somewhere and just get on the first bus that comes
>get off at the end of the route at the lower level of the bus station
>go up the stairs
>"this doesn't look like the ferry port, I can't even see the water"
>turn around and see a giant wall in front of me
>it's the fucking chinese border

>>2832676
cont'd

>take a minute to compose myself, get a water from a vending machine and gather my thoughts
>the sightseeing was a bust, but casinos were the main reason i came here anyway
>decide to give it another shot
>use the public wifi to find the correct bus route, ride about 50 minutes from the border to the strip
>finally arrive at the casinos, still crowded but at least the rain has let up quite a bit
>briefly get lost once again until i find my way to the floor but eventually make it there

long story short i gambled for nearly 5 hours and won almost 20k HKD playing baccarat, blackjack, and slots. made it back to the correct port just in time for the last ferry to HK. offset the cost of my entire trip (hotel, flights, entertainment) and then some.

a group of 4 Chinese teenagers came up to me as I left the casino asking for spare change with a translator app, i was in such a good mood i gave them 100 hkd each

>>2831969 (OP)
>fucking around in Chiba
>decide to book a hotel for a night at a beach
>hotel is like a bar with rooms in the back
>walk in, nobody there
>ring the bell, no answer
>decide to walk to sev and get some sake juice boxes
>drink and light up a few cigs in the smoking area
>hours pass with nobody there still
>some random guy comes in an asks if they are serving food, tell him I don't know where anyone is in shitty japanese
>dude finally gets here and I get checked in
>go out and eat some wagyu, come back to these two canadians sitting on the couch watching borat
>decide to hang with them and smoke more cigs
>start trying to make small chat, dude starts acting all weird and clingy to this girl
>go pass out drunk in my room
weirdest fucking place I've ever been

>>2832655
I don't get it

>>2832671
One of them asked where I was from, I said Espana, then he garbled something in Spanish at me which I didn't understand and he realized I wasn't, but seemed amused by it

>>2831969 (OP)
>memorable things that happened to you while traveling
On Marseille a junkie started shutting the middle of a square not far from the McDonald's there
I wanted to film it but my (luckily ex) gf now cucked me by putting the hand in front of my camera and saying that those are poor people. fucking nive piece of shit (she wanted to travel alone to London shortly before I dumped her hopefully she'll get raped by niggers)
Either way same day a homeless/junkie was washing himself in one of those small fountains in the middle of the walking street next to all the restaurants
Now whenever I travel I make sure to film all the subhumans without distractions (which is way more fun than having an annoying cunt follow you everywhere which you have to pay for everything just because you want to have 20 minutes of sex that day)

>>2832679
I checked into a weird resort hotel in Poland once. The owner was friendly enough and materialized at the door shortly after I walked up. When I left the room after bullshitting on WiFi for an hour or so, he had turned off all the lights and closed the front gate to the property. I had the whole place to myself. Feels good when random people read me as a trustworthy person right off the bat.

>hitchiking in estonia
>arrive at a latvian border town
>wednesday evening, decide to grab some food from the supermarket and then go sleep in a tent
>old estonian man walks by while we're eating at the park
>asks if we're estonian
>no but I speak estonian
>do you drink?
>no
>ok good night
>comes back after 10 min
>where are you sleeping?
>in a tent
>invites us to sleep over at his house
>no electricity or running water
>the next morning shows us where he hides the key in the yard and says we can just go in and use his house whenever we pass through
>a few months later I moved into the house and rented a room for a low low price of two packs of ciggies per month

>working in finland as a street food vendor on weekends, living in latvia during weekdays
>unlicensed kosovar cab driver hired by boss to deliver food
>invites me to kosovo and albania 2 weeks from now
>3 weeks later in the middle of a shroom trip at 3am this guy calls me interrupting a grateful dead blues guitar solo
>wanna the balkans?
>sure but I only have 40€ because I'm supposed to collect my paycheck in two days
>no problem I pay
>ok lol
>drive to serbia 2 days straight without sleep
>this guy has a sudden panick attack or something and kicks me out of the car at a gas station near belgrade
>hitchike to belgrade
>go to a cafe
>some english record shop owner gives me a bracelet ticket granting me free emtry to all the clubs in the city for the next 4 days
>spend the next week partying, meeting new people, hanging out in an illegal refugee squat etc. until my boss sends me money

>hitchiking in lithuania
>car pulls up
>passenger hands a joint
>spend the next few days with a local drug dealer and his friends, partying and speeding through the streets of a second tier city

>hitchiking in spain
>end up in an off grid hippie community where people live in caves and drugs are openly sold in makeshift bars
>try opium and hang out with weird people, weird stuff happens

>>2835721
Incredibly based. What you upto nowadays?

>>2835161
>interesting
>funny
>scary
>or in any way memorable

>>2835721
>hobo traveling with a friend in switzerland
>try to get to lausanne from lugano
>get on a train
>wrong train, going to zurich
>see ticket inspector and get off
>turn around and see the doors close
>friend stays on the train
>our phones are out of charge
>both laugh and wave goodbyes
>eventually meet up in lausanne and share funny stories of stuff that happened to us while getting there

>go to a food bank in geneva
>no signs of life, church is empty
>find a side door to the basement
>door opens to a renovation site
>stprage filled with food, clothes and similar stuff
>debate whether we should feast on these treasures or not
>night comes
>begin feasting
>clean up any mess left behind
>wake up
>hear footsteps and talking
>wait for the right moment and walk out the door
>construction workers across the street stare at us
>go through alleyways and get on a tram
>three cop cars speed past sirens on

>staying with relatives in portugal after hitchiking all the way from albania
>bored with europe, decide to go to africa
>call up some contacts back home
>for the next 2 weeks waiting for a phonecall telling me to go either ghana or nigeria
>nigeria it is
>can't get a visa easily because of a current political crisis
>contacts tell me if I can get to a land border I should be able to bribe my way in
>go on wikipedia and look up visa free countries
>all grey except benin republic
>dafuq is benin republic
>fly to benin republic

Too many stories from africa so I'll summarize

>pay some market tout to live in his shack becauae gotel prices are a scam
>shack burns down at night
>stole 300€ during the fire
>village chief wants to do a voodoo rotual to bring back my money
>find my way to nigeria working for some crazy millionaire
>go back to benin
>hawk for 5 months
>motorcycle chase
>fight my way out of a kidnapping attempt my my landlord
>almost die of malaria in the middle of nowhere
>found a bag full of money randomly
>saw cops stealing a smuggler's motorcycle

>>2835727
>corrupt airport official say I need a corona pass
>driven to the house of parliament
>they sell me a unicef donated vaccine
>head of the airport gives me his number "in case I need anything"
>my local weed dealer is a 10 year old girl and her mom who live in a straw hut on the beach
>corruption, corruption, corruption

>hitchiking in switzerland with a friend
>hop over to germany to find a place to sleep
>office lot with paper bins
>wake up the next morning to the bin shaking and sound of a motor
>get out of the bin and wave at the garbage truck driver about to dump us lol

>squat in an abandoned national guard building in an artsy village in estonia for a month

>volunteer at a music festival in finland
>see the whole shitshow turn into bull island 2.0

>return home from africa
>decide to finish my art project after years of writing
>depressed and bored
>400g of dried shrooms at home
>eat 15g lemon tekked
>heaviest trip of my life
>buy a one way ticket to greece and go find a new country where I can be motivated to work on my project
>friend who was supposed to tag along realizes his passport was expired
>land in thessaloniki, greece alone
>meet an artist at an art alley type event in a park
>invites me to a music festival in a village
>go to this village
>5000 attendees expected, only 250 show up
>only foreigner
>organizer let me in for free and allow me to sleep in storage room
>hang out in thess for three days after the festival smoking and hanging out with artists
>greece
>macedonia
>serbia
>romania
>bulgaria

>senile kews offer me a job at a hostel in sofia after he
>fly back after 3 weeks
>turns into a stereotypical nightmare
>go to greece and try to make it as a street vendor
>nope.exe
>back to bulgaria
>board a train to varna
>spend the next 9 months working on my project and getting into all kinds of stuff

Going to south india for a year in two months from now, 5 friends have promised to come and visit me, will be fun

>>2835724
Been working like crazy for months and decided to just party and hang out with friends after hitting a major benchmark in my work

Been on a party binge for a few days now, getting ready for india
I'm expecting to become a published author once I finish the first volume of something I've been writing for the past 6 years, expecting it to blow up so I can fonally have a proper career going
After india I have a job oppoturnity waiting for me in nigeria

I got into traveling to fuel my fictional storytelling, has worked out so far
I feel like having a clear plan and an idea for the purpose of traveling is why I've gotten into so many unusual situations

I feel like india will be the best year of my life

I missed the train back to frankfurt from paris and spent the night in a bus station. A guy offered me marijuana. Another guy asked me for marijuana. Two afghan immigrants on their way to england stopped by. I chatted with the one who spoke English.
It was 12 C cold at that night.

>>2835161
Kek Polish boomers are like this, they will turn off the lights the second someone leaves the room for electricity bill "optimization"

>>2832047
It has been archived

Kid I worked with in Japan hung himself at the end of the season. He was also a gaijin and his useless family couldn't be bothered to come over for his funeral so a group of 15 or so of us were asked to do the Japanese funeral dutys. So first they didn't even give him makeup and cover his autopsy scar so he looked fucken dead af, the sorrow on his face. Then they wheeled him off and cremated him, we were then asked to fucking pick through some of his ashes with chop sticks wtf, Japanese tradition, wtf did say yes for. They bought him out and you could smell our cremated bro, hot dry air, blood and bone smell. Then yeah we all took turns, I got a small finger bone and put it in his urn. Saw his face everyday for years.

I was early 20s. Fuck Japan, fuck that kids parents, fuck Japan again. Fuck all you weebs you'll never experience Japan like we had too experience it.

>>2835924
That's pretty grim man ;( Sucks to have to go through that.

I got violently thrown out of a house party in Xalapa, Mexico by an enraged drug dealer after I pointed out that he had shorted me on the weed. I was supposed to pay 250 pesos ($12) for 4 grams, but he only bagged up a gram and a half. A very common practice with drug dealers selling to tourists in Latin America. Respecting the owners of the house, both of us were completely silent during the altercation.

It all started off very well, with the owners treating me like an honored guest and feeding me dinner and beer. Unfortunately I had forgotten to bring water, and after smoking, I suddenly began feeling extremely dehydrated from the salty dinner. When I asked for water, they mocked me and said "we don't drink water, we only drink beer". Then I said I was going to drink out of the tap. Horrified, they then poured me a glass of water. I simply ignored the rising tension in the group, led by the drug dealer who showed up with a huge boa constrictor over his shoulders, accompanied by several young girls. He hated my gringo ass from the moment he saw me.

After I got back in my truck and drove past the police substation right next door, a police truck came up behind me with the lights flashing. I kept driving, a little drunk and a little high and a little shaky from the adrenaline dump. He did not blip his siren, and I turned onto the dark narrow street near my hostel with a huge sigh of relief.

Another time I tried to buy weed in Tuxtepec, Oaxaca...but ended up with some drunk guys trying to grab my wallet out of my pocket. I told them "creo que es robar" and power-walked away from them. One advantage of being tall is that short shit men have to run to catch up with you when you're walking at full speed. The police also mysteriously pulled up a few minutes later as I was trying to find my way back to my hotel, a lot drunker than I realized. They decided not to fuck with me and drove off.

On my first extended solo roadtrip in Appalachia as a 20 year old in 2014, I got invited into several people's houses.

An old man living alone in the forested hills near the Susquehanna River in southern PA. He took me down a tiny road that forded a creek several times as it descended to the river. A large sandbar extended out from its mouth, and many vehicles were parked out in the sunshine drinking, fishing, grilling, and playing music. He let me sleep on his extremely comfortable couch, then put some Pop Tarts in the toaster oven for our breakfast. I offered him $5 but he refused.

Some guys in a pickup truck in Peru, West Virginia directed me to a campground where a group of bear hunters were staying. I parked at a site and walked over to say hi. They were very friendly. Moonshine and firearms were in evidence. One drunk guy emptied his .454 Casull into the side of a hill. He told this long drunk story about shooting a deer with it that involved numerous laws being broken. Then when he found out I had never shot a gun before, he loaded it and said that I could shoot it. I asked if they had anything smaller. They brought out a .22 target pistol. I nailed the beercan on the second shot, and they were impressed. But none of my subsequent shots hit the beercan.

In Shady Valley, Tennessee, I stopped at a farm store to buy some top-notch produce. Ended up hanging out with the farm laborers and the owner. They all worked together as one team. Somehow I ended up shelling peas and chatting with one guy's morbidly obese wife. He gave me a hard look when she introduced me to him, then went through the politenesses and didn't say anything to me afterwards. The owner announced that he had been blackballed from every church in the area due to his reputation for homosexuality. He had a huge beard that he had tie-dyed. He got deep into drinking, while the farmhands drove their pickup truck home, to a double-wide trailer perched on the burned-out foundation of a multi million dollar mansion that the owner used to own. It was uninsured, and it burned to the ground with everything inside after a lightning strike. God's judgment, the Baptists said.

In Marion, North Carolina, a pastor took me out to lunch at Huddle House after I descended from the mountains. After the evening service he invited me to sleep on his living room couch, which was eight inches shorter than I was. Should've slept in my truck bed, which was four inches longer than I was.

June 2018, I connected with a Rainbow couple and brought them up to the house of a friend in Johnson City, TN to connect with a family friend. Unfortunately, the family friend was zoned out on opiates, alone in her room playing the guitar, while her meth-dealing, meth-using nephew ran a constant stream of drug deals through the front door. The couple got a room, and I got a couch, where I "slept" through a full night of meth and cash trading hands at the kitchen table. The next day, we went to a quiet rural property run by another friend, where I smoked a little weed and enjoyed that amazing June Appalachian weather after a severe thunderstorm: cool, clear and amazingly clean. Colorado called me westward, and that was that.

>In Malacca, Malaysia
>Get off the bus and realize the bus terminal is in a completely different area than the city centre/historical zone
>Walk around with my backpack trying to figure out what local bus to take to my hostel
>2 Chinese grandpas see me
>Tell me they will drive me to my hostel
>Sketch af
>I get into their car anyways cause I'm an idiot
>They start telling me some bullshit stories about bringing foreigners to their home
>I get more scared
>Then they ask me to go to a sauna with them later
>I take out my swiss army knife and hold it in my hand
>Actually get driven to the hostel
>SurprisedPikachu.jpg
>They give me their phone number and tell me to call them later to hang out
>No way jose...

I had a good time in Malacca though, highly recommend.

>>2835954
It was pretty grim. On the otherhand we all were there for this young man and who knows how fucked up his life was back home to want to do that instead of going home.

>in Budapest
>walking across a bridge to the Buda side
>almost across but still on the bridge - there's a road and a little park under it
>see a woman walking along the path down below
>homeless-looking guy suddenly appears from behind a tree and grabs her
>she's screaming but he's trying to cover her mouth and drag her away
>I shout 'HEY' really loud and he looks up
>I then start running toward some steps that lead down
>he seems to be wondering what his next move will be and is still holding her
>I'm running down the steps and he lets go, she runs away
>I'm still running towards him (not really sure why at this point, probably juts adrenaline)
>he turns around and runs across the road and tram line I'm probably about 70ft from him
>he jumps over the wall
>I get to the wall expecting there to be a path or steps below, but it's just water
>he jumped in the river, the Danube
>no sign of him
>a car stopped, and looked too, said something in Hungarian and shrugged their shoulders, then got back in and drove off
>that was that

>>2836109
I got picked up by a Chinese Malaysian guy in a pickup truck outside Triang while on the verge of heat exhaustion after walking 7 km to a hilltop temple under the midday sun with a tiny bottle of water. He brought me the remaining 4 km to town and got me some ice water and coffee and buttered bread at a Chinese cafe. He insisted on paying the bill himself, then got back in his truck and returned to his job as a security guard in the palm plantation I had walked through earlier.

>>2831988
>>2832655
is there a reference to anything

it's killing me to know

>>2831984
If I dont know you then explain why I feel the need to fist fight you!

>>2831984
tldr but おしり と お ください

>>2836149
that's nuts
I took the trolley across the river after visiting the castle and the prettiest teenage girl I saw there was looking at me. Your budapest story is better

>>2837873
Oh another Budapest story. I was outside the restaurant after trying goulash (pretty good) smoking a cigarette and some young guy comes up and slaps me on the shoulder and says something I didn't process. He was giving me such an expectant smile I didn't know what to do besides smile and give thumbs up. A bit later I realized he said "Kommando?" He thought I was a commando there. I was wearing boots and sort of army pants. That was cool. I also got thrown out of a super trendy Hungarian gym for wearing that. The bitch cunt gym girl who ratted on me was super excited about it.