TravelI've had guns pointed at me in many different countries, sometimes even by our own side. I've also sat on my own on a beach on a desert island, which was nice because nobody was trying to shoot me. Tell us your tales of foreign travel.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 17:43)
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I went to Guatemala in 2009and we stayed at Lago de Atitlán at a very pleasant resort called Iguana Perdida. But the trip was primarily a business trip, as the missus had to pay a home visit to a guy in San Marcos, up close to the Mexican border.
The trip was a long one. We started out by boat across the lake, where we picked up a taxi to take us to the bus station. From there we took a microbus with nice seats and air conditioning to another town, where we hired a motorized rickshaw to get us to another place for a bus.
It turned out to be a chicken bus (Google for that) driven by a guy with pinpoint pupils and a need for speed. Most of the road was paved, but in some areas it got down to dirt. We went through mountains around hairpin turns at about 120 kph, looking down into a 200 meter drop, and at least once the bus went up on two wheels.
Funny, but no driving or riding I've done since then has frightened me.
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 19 Apr 2013, 8:59,
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