What was your favorite experience as a tourist?
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I just came back from a holiday trip in Japan, and I feel I will keep many good memories from that experience.
One of them was waking up at 3AM and start hiking around Mount Fuji for sunrise. This felt quite like a unique experience, out of the beaten paths and I'm glad we did it!What's one good story you'll keep from your last trips?
getting scammed in Manila
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I remember sitting in the bar of the Post Hotel, Lake Louise Village with a glass of Dalwhinnie, listening to the pianist play the Jurassic Park theme just to see if anyone would recognise it. I was overwhelmed by the realisation that I was living one of my dreams to visit Western Canada, one of the most beautiful places on Earth. I admit I cried.
Also, what a wonderful hotel! I'd recommend it in a heartbeat.
Lake Louise Village [...] Western Canada
You mean MID-Western Canada. Western Canada is a little bit to the left.
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I just came back from a holiday trip in Japan, and I feel I will keep many good memories from that experience.
One of them was waking up at 3AM and start hiking around Mount Fuji for sunrise. This felt quite like a unique experience, out of the beaten paths and I'm glad we did it!What's one good story you'll keep from your last trips?
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Last autumn my parter and I pulled up to a free camping area in Colorada ran buy the USDA. At some point we heard a lot of sheep bleeting and stepped outside to see 5 people and 3 dogs hearding a large flock of sheep down a mountain across the highway. We grabbed a few beers and a joint and spent the next 4 hours outside watching these sheep get rounded up into a pen in the Campground we were at. This was especially fun because we have a hearding dog of our own and watching these working dogs control hundreds of sheep with minimal input from the sheppards was pretty incredible. Our dog sat and watched with us and was absolutely enamored by the sheep. After the sheep were all penned he was able to go over and say hi to the other dogs. That evening we were on our final bathroom walk of the evening when we got approached by a great perinaise who gave us a check out and then walked back to the pen fence and layed back down. What a good guard dog.
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Last autumn my parter and I pulled up to a free camping area in Colorada ran buy the USDA. At some point we heard a lot of sheep bleeting and stepped outside to see 5 people and 3 dogs hearding a large flock of sheep down a mountain across the highway. We grabbed a few beers and a joint and spent the next 4 hours outside watching these sheep get rounded up into a pen in the Campground we were at. This was especially fun because we have a hearding dog of our own and watching these working dogs control hundreds of sheep with minimal input from the sheppards was pretty incredible. Our dog sat and watched with us and was absolutely enamored by the sheep. After the sheep were all penned he was able to go over and say hi to the other dogs. That evening we were on our final bathroom walk of the evening when we got approached by a great perinaise who gave us a check out and then walked back to the pen fence and layed back down. What a good guard dog.
Wow I've never seen such landscape! Thanks for sharing the photos!
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Going around Vancouver looking for the filming locations from my favourite TV show. Trying to find all the angles to match screenshots from the show. I know it's a bit silly but that TV show inspired me to get into the career I've worked in for the last decade and is a fond memory of growing up. Vancouver is such a nice place, and if I had the money I'd consider moving there.
I think it's in the top places to live in, worldwide. Follow your dreams!
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we just went everywhere on bike. Every day an hour or two just following the coastline, nothing but the sea, the shore and the sails of the boats in the distance.
Definitely an interesting perspective change to hear one's commute can also be considered a holiday activity
(am Dutch)tell me about it. commuting to work by bike, uphill and into the wind both ways.
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Taiwan. I wanted to try on a pair of shoes. The sales person was gone a long time. We asked what happened to her. They didn't have my size, so she went to all the other shoe stores in on the block checking if they had my size. Incredible customer service. Quite unreal to a USA native.
I was in Japan buying a souvenir for my mom. I had settled on a really nice hanging wall scroll with a landscape view. The salesman packages it up, and I realise that this is going into checked baggage on my flight home and is kind of fragile. I mention this and the guy goes and digs up all sorts of additional packaging, bubble wrap, and twine and ties it up so securely that he cut his fingers on the twine. The man injured himself so that I could get his product safely into an airplane.
That was 19 years ago, and I will never be in that shop again, but I will also never forget that.
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Last autumn my parter and I pulled up to a free camping area in Colorada ran buy the USDA. At some point we heard a lot of sheep bleeting and stepped outside to see 5 people and 3 dogs hearding a large flock of sheep down a mountain across the highway. We grabbed a few beers and a joint and spent the next 4 hours outside watching these sheep get rounded up into a pen in the Campground we were at. This was especially fun because we have a hearding dog of our own and watching these working dogs control hundreds of sheep with minimal input from the sheppards was pretty incredible. Our dog sat and watched with us and was absolutely enamored by the sheep. After the sheep were all penned he was able to go over and say hi to the other dogs. That evening we were on our final bathroom walk of the evening when we got approached by a great perinaise who gave us a check out and then walked back to the pen fence and layed back down. What a good guard dog.
Thank you for the great story. Your dog must still be dreaming of those sheep, haha.
Also love seeing the shepherd dogs at work, very professional.
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Banging locals
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I just came back from a holiday trip in Japan, and I feel I will keep many good memories from that experience.
One of them was waking up at 3AM and start hiking around Mount Fuji for sunrise. This felt quite like a unique experience, out of the beaten paths and I'm glad we did it!What's one good story you'll keep from your last trips?
I’ve traveled around the world a lot and seen many great sites. Nothing compared to the feeling of home when I first reached Scotland. I can neither describe it nor understand it, but I had an overwhelming since of home.
