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I'm in bed and can't sleep because I'm going on a trip abroad tomorrow!
Distract me~

We went to Hawai'i two years ago. We actually stayed in downtown Honolulu, and it was so much fun to walk two miles to the HUGE TOTALLY DESIGNER mall as well as go in a submarine and windsurfing.

Where are you going?

(duh, wasn't logged in)

did you buy a lot? or anything? that kind of sounds expensive...
a submarine sounds too claustrophobic for me, but windsurfing sounds so cool!

I'm going to Madrid, but only for two days!

Heh, my mother didn't get in either, it was me and my father. They had ships from the university that they had tested for something or other. I got a Mulan Animator Doll from the Disney Store, and stuff from Hilo Hattie's, which is like a commercialized Hawaiian superstore.

We also took the bus to the air force base - it took about an hour - we got to ride through swanky parts and Chinatown - it was really neat.

Madrid sounds exciting, I'm sure you'll see some cool stuff!

When I was touring the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador we'd do stops at each island every day to get out, do different activities, hike, etc.

There were a lot of opportunities for swimming and snorkelling, which was awesome because the sea life was incredible.

Well, at one of the islands where there were a lot of rocks (and therefore a pretty good surge in the little bay) there were a bunch of sea lion pups playing in the water. As we were swimming around they started trying to play tag with us as if we were also sea lion pups. It was absolutely amazing, and they were much too fast to catch, so they kept looking back like "hey come on what are you doing" like we weren't playing properly.

So much fun. So damn cute.

This one time we stopped at a highway restaurant in Arkansas and had the most redneck experience of our life.

Other than that, I loved the return trips we would take with my dad from Oklahoma (where my mom lived; we'd visit her in the summer). He had no qualms about stopping at various places that looked interesting (because we had no certain time to get back home). We went to some cool places in Tennessee (Ruby Falls being one) and would stop at big flea markers (I got two T1-84 calculators for $20!).

Tell me about this most redneck experience. I have been across the USA (drove the I90 all the way to DC) and my experiences were disappointingly non-redneck.

It was some kind of roadside family restaurant. At least, that is the closest descriptor I can think of. No idea why my parents chose that one. I remember there being a lot of wood (it was very dark because everything was made of wood) and that the place was empty. The menu consisted of various fried meat and other southern food.

There were chicken feet in the window, which confused me because that is not traditional Southern food. There were also other southern foods that were fairly common like salted fatback.

We ordered (can't remember what) and mostly kept quiet.

Then they came in. They being a short guy, a taller guy, and the last one we thought was a very tall woman. They looked like whatever your stereotype of a redneck/hillbilly offspring would be. They were loud. Very, very loud. This would not have been a problem until the woman started laughing. I wish I could do the laugh in person for you. Imagine the noise a donkey makes but much deeper (http://youtu.be/gROO7xSTxfY).

That was it for us. We had been on the road for hours and were exhausted. My sisters started laughing so hard they had to go to the bathroom. My dad was just like, "Please get us the bill." We were mostly done with our food by then. So my dad rushed us all out and we drove off into the sunset.

Ahahaha! Delightful. My neighbours used to own donkeys and they'd make some of the most ungodly sounds ever.

I loved seeing the Grand Canyon. And I convinced the people I was traveling with to fly over it with a small plane. It's one of those things where you truly feel small as a human being and feel humbled by nature.

Mind you I'm not American, and I was traveling without my parents as a teenager so that was a bit of an adventure.

I also saw Biosphere 2 on the same trip, which was mighty interesting.

I also visited India a few years back. My timing was impeccable, because I managed to be there during the terror attacks, which I'm sure my dad hasn't forgiven me until this day. But, aside from that, it was pretty amazing. I traveled a lot of Europe before that, but really that just doesn't compare. You're in a completely different culture, different people, different colors, landscapes, smells....

One of the things that truly baffled me most was that I went to landmarks that were also visited by inland tourists, including school buses of kids. And to many of these kids, well, I guess I might have been the only tourist they've come across in the flesh and I had entire classes of school kids wanting to shake my hand and take pics with me. It was surreal. I'm not usually a kid person, but they were so sweet, you just couldn't refuse them.

one of my fav moment of the trip was just when I climbed up a hill to see a temple to Hanuman, and it was just really nice and peaceful of there, and the view was nice - nothing spectacular, just a moment I was truly happy in life.

Also cows everywhere. Cows on the beach, cows in restaurants, cows eating trash from trashcans like cats in the West do.

I can't exactly remember the year, but my mom took my sister and I to a town in Washington. That's where her eldest sister lived (and still does), with her daughter (who was a year older than me). My Aunt is what I guess people would consider a stereotypical hippie. She named her two children after plants (a flower for her daughter, and herb for her son). She lived in a completely different world than us. And the attitude of people on the West Coast was pretty different to the East.

I got to go to school there for a week, as a visitor. It was really special for me, as I've always had a bit of difficulty making friends, and I seemed to click with a few people instantly (or maybe they were just being polite, lol).

We got to visit Pike's Market, and see the guys tossing fish through the air. He also had and ugly fish on a string, that he pulled when we got close. I got to have a chocolate ice cream called 'Blind Love', that I thing back remember as my favorite flavor of chocolate ever (thought that may just be nostalgia).

I got to see Mount Saint Helena when we were in the plane. Oh! I got to stretch out in empty seats on the plane too! It was years ago and it was really empty. I got to see an oyster with a pearl inside it open. I got to gnaw and taste sugar cane for the first time.

We went to the Rain Forest, which I remember as one of my favorite places ever. It was wicked green, and seemed to be constantly raining. There were trees bigger than the five of us could stretch around with our hands linked, and slugs. My cousin had told my sister that the plastic ponchos my mom had gotten for everyone were called condoms. They were different colors, and my little sister kept shouting "I want to wear the blue condom!"

The whole trip is one of my favorite memories.

When I was 13, my family drove to New York (from Michigan - 14 hrs in the car one way) for a wedding. At one point we smelled this horrible smell that wouldn't go away and we blamed it on my youngest brother farting. He got really mad and upset and insisted it wasn't him but we all were like "totes you brah." Then on the way back a week later we smelled the same smell in the same place and we realized that we were actually driving past a really big garbage dump.

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