This led to me reminiscing about some of my own travel moments that I've chosen to "crop out":
-Noticing that I was getting a bad bladder infection as soon as I stepped onto a flight heading to Seattle from Tokyo (~9 hours long). I squirmed in pain the entire time, and had to use the bathroom roughly every 15 minutes. (Fun calculation: that equals 36 pees!) Thank goodness I had an aisle seat.
-Choosing to add extra jalapeños to an order of nachos while eating dinner in Edinburgh, and then chasing it with a few extra beers = horrible stomach cramps during the next morning's train ride to York. I missed out on a few hours of sightseeing due to being curled up in a ball on a train station bench.
-Breaking down in tears in a Kyoto train station because I couldn't find the correct exit for the "bamboo forest".
-While in Tijuana with Henry and Danny, being tricked by a sketchy bar's "3-for-1 beer special" advertisement....which did NOT mean we all got to enjoy one beer for cheap....rather, we were each presented with 3 beers. Yep, 9 for the price for 3. And then they stole our change when we tried to pay. Oh well...at least we got drunk. Which you NEED to be in order to enjoy Tijuana.
-Having a snotty French hotel manager put us in the smelliest smoking room EVER at a London Hilton. And the windows wouldn't even open, so we couldn't air it out. Henry threw a fit in the lobby to no avail, and we were forced to sleep in the stank.
-Seafood-phobic Henry being forced to eat raw ocean creatures galore at a super-fancy, private sushi dinner in Fukuoka. Not wanting to offend the chef, he downed the urchin while visibly shaking. Lesson learned: Henry does NOT dream of sushi.
-Trying to pay for food at Whistler, and they refused to take our US dollars. BURN.
-Watching my extremely-drunk-on-sake brother almost smash into some shoji screens while stumbling around at a Japanese friend's family member's home. Although, there is video of this, and it is hilarious.
-Coming down with the flu while in Pennsylvania visiting my Grandma for what I knew would be the very last time. Spent 3/4s of the trip bed-ridden. On a positive note, she didn't catch it. On a not-so-positive note, that was indeed my final visit with her. Cue sad violin....
-Various camping mishaps. So much can go wrong whilst "enjoying" the great outdoors...campfire burns, mosquito swarms, burnt veggie dogs, air mattress leaks, sketchy midnight trips to the shitter...WHY do I continue to subject myself to this?!
Anyways, while quizzing Henry about our not-so-great travel moments, we were both surprised that it was pretty hard to come up with more. (Oddly, they always seem to involve me getting sick...or nachos). I guess we've been pretty lucky on our adventures. However, since we don't plan on staying put anytime soon, you can guarantee that there will be more cringe-worthy moments for me to "crop out" in the future.
