1. When I was in Guatemala, I decided to take a hiking trip up Volcano Tajamulco, the highest point in the country. I hired a tour guide, Edwin, who told me, “You’re loca. You’re the first female that I’ve ever taken by herself. I’ve taken lots of German, Spanish, and Italian men, but never a woman.” So ,laca, “crazy” in Spanish, was my nickname the rest of the trip. The hike turned out to be a total disaster. First of all, I was totally unprepared for the conditions on the mountain. I didn’t bring enough warm clothes or water, and I had to carry my bag because I hadn’t thought to get one that had a waist strap. By the time we got close to the top of the mountain, I was exhausted… and it was raining! My pants were soaked. I couldn’t even feel my fingers! I never got to see the world from atop Tajamulco. All I wanted to do was get off that mountain!
2. Once when I was traveling in Russia, I got to the train station in Moscow only to find out my hotel was booked. I kept calling hotel after hotel to find a room. No luck. There was nothing available.. There was a guy in line for the phone who heard what was going on. His name was Yuri, and he said I could stay with his family. It seemed kind of weird. I mean, this was a total stranger. Like, I would never do that at home. But I didn’t have anywhere to go, and he kept insisting it was fine. He was like:” Of course, we have a lot of room, big house, big family.” Well, he was so persistent I just couldn’t refuse. I took him up on the offer. And it was great. I stayed with Yuri and his family for a week, and it was so much fun. I really got to see how regular Russians live. It turned out to be the best experience I’ve ever had.
3. My friend and I were in Nepal, and we’d just finished an eight-day trek in the Langtang region. We caught the bus back toward Kathmandu, and we began to notice how full it was getting. Well, the bus stopped about twice every mile, and more people kept getting in, until it got so crowed that people had to climb on the roof. Pretty soon, there were probably thirty people on the roof. And then we got to the hairpin turns. It was like a half-mile drop, straight down, and the bus started leaning on every turn. A couple guys would get out and push on the bus to make sure it didn’t roll over the cliff. Well, that was enough for me! We asked the driver to stop the bus and we got out and watched sd they drove on ahead of us. The tires were almost flat with the weight of all those passengers. We walked for about a half an hour and then we saw the bus. I t had a flat tire! I thought for sure we would read in the newspaper the next day about a bus that had gone over the cliff, but somehow they must have made it.
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