traveling experience that freaks you out

just like the title sez....

for me,it's when i'm in israel/palestina border.

the aura is so otherwordly.the tension is so high.the air is suffocating.
multitude of anti air cannon.battalions of troops.100 something of tanks parked.fortification everywhere.
and to make it worse,there's gunshots and artilery blasts all of sudden.

i was evacuated right after that,but still.it freaks/terrify/scares the hell outta me.

i mean,i saw artilery round explodes like 25 meter in front of me.
damn.

and the next day i watch the television,the place i exactly stand yesterday is just a pile of rubble.

how about you guys?

israel and palestine,huh....
cool.not everybody allowed to go there for vacation.
seriously,how'd you get the visa for that?

anyway,my most freakish experience would be when i went to paris,france.
i got hungry at midnight.so,i went to this 24-hour joint that serves good burgers and sandwich.

i safely went there and eat my food,but on my way back to the hotel....
disaster.

two policeman ask me a lot of question(maybe because walking i'm alone after midnight,they think that i am suspicious) .IN FRENCH.apparently,they can't speak english,so they bring me to the police station.

and so i went,got questioned(more like interrogation)by an english-speaking officer,asked about my passport,and i just realized that i didn't bring mine.

great.i try to convince them that i'm a tourist,and they don't believe me.
they let me call my hotel to inform my mom,nobody answers.
and so i spend the next 8 hours or so in a dark,damp and dirty cell.
(french jails are the worst compared to other euro nations')

they let me out the next day,because the officer is smart enough to check my student card and match it with the visitor database.

but still,i hate being in a dark,enclosed space.(i'm claustrophobic)

after that incident, never once i walked out of my hotel alone.

Well, while taking my sister to the post office one dark night in the winter time I almost ran into a huge ass moose with my car. Didn't see it til' the last minute, I never seen a huge ass moose like that one, so that freaked me out. :shock:

O_O a moose?
I must say that the worst traveling experience I have had is when someone threw up on my laptop case on a plane. ;_;

certainly hope that your laptop is safe....

It was, thank goodness. If it wasn't, I think I would be in jail for killing the person who threw up on it. :twisted:

I was making my third trip to Laos, I was 19 at the time, when I realized I never got to visit any of the underground fighting sects. So, on a whim, I decided to accompany my troubled uncle to a muay thai event. When I arrived, I witnessed a match just ending, with the loser severely bloodied. After the match ended, the winner of the previous match, pointed to me, and started heckling me. I was wearing clothes from America, so I stuck out. After witnessing such a sight, you'd think me crazy to accept. But I like fighting, I REALLLY like fighting. So I agreed to the fight, with the condition of it being only 3 rounds. Long story short, I fought, was nervous, I had the win in the palm of my hands, but it's the underground society of another country. So I held on for the 3 rounds, resulting in a draw(muay thai wins can only be from knockout). After the match, they starting cheering, and complimenting me, which really freaked me out, cause these guys were pimps and drug dealers. So the rest of the trip I kept being nervous that an officer would come and keep me in the country due to my relationship with those guys. I though my passport would eventually be taken.

Interesting story. But it makes sense, you proved that you were not weak or there to simply see what was going on. People like that usually respect strength -> not backing down.

They were fucking pimps and drug dealers, from another country!

That shit was fucking scary, people placed bets, so if I won I probably would've been killed, and vice-versa, those guys don't like americans. I was lucky to get 3 rounds, cause I don't think I could fake the fight any further without getting caught. I hate my uncle, and the questionable people he hangs out with.

My worst traveling experience... Must be when I was riding on that ferry. Was in spring, it was midnight and dark as in the arse of a bear. Anyways, we had a nice "breeze" as I would like to put it going. 10 Beaufort and you are in one cabin with members of your class that are already seasick with the slightest rolling.
Things went fine with the puking up to 2 o'clock in the morning. Usually they ran in a 20 minutes tact to the toilette and came back, but around that time... suddenly the guy sleeping over me threw up and everything landed next to my pillow about 10cm away from my head. My roommate quickly made a run for the next service point (not without throwing up 3 times on the way) To get me a new sheet and some cleaning agents for the floor.

The next day was even better as they all looked like someone that survived the pest successively two times in a row, while I was sitting calmly on the deck, drinking coffee and speaking with one of the skippers that was off shift.

After that experience I decided to always double check if there was a seasick person in the cabin if I made a group trip and to make sure that person sleeps in the lower bed.

When I was a kid (about 7-8 years old) I bumped into an old lady in Vietnam and she yelled at me, I was terrified. That sums it up for my most freakish traveling experience. Blah, I need to travel more lol.

Lol, that's hella funny.

My worst travelling experience was when we were driving, and I suddenly had an urge to puke and I told my dad and he said we would stop soon, but being a kid and my stomach wanting to expell everything within it, I threw up all over the car and on myself. It was gross bright orange puke and when I walked with my dad into the mall to get changed I was embarrased as shit. I was about 12 just when you become aware of yourself... :shock:

My worst traveling experience would have to be when i was coming back from Kansas City back home from a concert and i was in the back of this small truck.[in the actual truck but not the bed of it.] and i was smushed between two of my best friends brothers. And let me tell you. they are some big guys. and i was so smushed i had to stare at the road because i couldnt get my ds out! >-< damn being small!!!!

Would you mind getting smushed with me?

lmao depends on what kind of getting smushed you mean.

intercourse

still as pervy as usual. :(

most freaky thing that happened to me while on a trip? hmm....lol easy! once when i went down to mexico we had to take a bus to a remote town that was near some mountains. the road leading there was on the side of one of the mountains and if you looked to the side you could see that it was about a 80ft drop to the bottom. being afraid of heights, this freaked me out but alas i made it to the town without any complications......unfortunately on the way back it started to rain. this time on the way back down we had to go on the other side of the road (the one right next to the drop) and right in the middle of making a turn, the bus started skidding down the road!! the back part of the bus (near where i was) actually hit the railing and dented it a bit. i was so freakin scared that i almost literally shit myself. fortunately the bus driver managed to regain control of the bus and we managed to make it down safely. lol but that was the last time i ever took a bus anywhere. now a days if the place doesnt have an airport then too bad! im not goin there and you cant make me. btw sry if this was a little long

I'll join in the smushing... :roll:

It's like a re-creation of her Kansas City trip, only it isn't some "small" truck, and she won't want to get out her DS for this one.