#went on a trip out of the country-

[percabeth4life]

I was gonna try to post an ATLOP update this next Monday but... Lol prob not, depends if I get a chance to.

[notbecauseofvictories]

I was sitting in my hostel's common room (journaling and absentmindedly eating dinner) and tripped and fell into a two hour discussion with a British man who happened to be sitting there as well. We discussed international politics and I managed to hold my own---who knew I had this many opinions about the ICJ? Also he kissed my hand afterward, which has to be the most charming thing to happen to me in recent history. Now I'm sweetly cradled in wine bed and listening to a recording of the opera I wanted to see...it's okay, actually. Everything is wonderful.

[linogram]

everyday europeans find new ways to piss me off

[ace-and-the-rpg-horrors]

i love the Pandemonium event story i wish school trips were real

[thewinedarksea]

we went to iceland!

[creepyscritches]

My mom is going on a cruise w her bestie to a lot of European countries she's not seen yet (hasn't been to/lived in Europe or Africa since shortly before I was born). She asked me what gift I'd like and tbh I just really loooooove spices and flavors I dont have the opportunity to discover/try here, but like 🤔 not sure if customs would bar her from bringing spices home. Maybe a cool rock or smth instead as I seem to be collecting small stone animals when I travel lately

[tropicana-on-the-walkway]

Somewhere out there is an only child to a blue collar dad and a stay at home millennial mom and they are living better than you have ever lived. When I die that's who I want to come back as.

[simplyghosting]

Prayer request. Sister got pickpocketed overseas and all her cards got taken. 🙏

[altruistic-meme]

re: drive, do what you did with your sister when y'all went to Texas but alone?

when i drove from San Francisco to essentially Vancouver on my way to Alaska, it was literally like every other road trip except i had to call all the shots. which was stressful af since this wasnt a For Fun trip so i asked for a buddy on my way back down

oh!! you can bring like a plushie and take photos of it in places :3 that is your travel buddy

ah!! yeah, see, the biggest problem is that my sister did most of the planning for that trip skdhfskdg

it is,,, mmmmm,,, well part of it is that i'm going to be flying instead of driving! since it's a 30hr drive :') which is Fine and Okay except i have to go through 2 of the busiest US airports by myself with next-to-no experience :'))) i may or may not be very nervous about that lmao

but other than that it's also gonna be a longer trip! im going for about a week (probably, i know i'll be leaving saturday but idk what day i want to return home yet) whereas my trip to texas with my sister was 3 days, as was my trip with my other sister when we went to california! (<- that was also my only airport/plane experience thus far) so im gonna have more time there to actually Do Things as opposed to just... Day 1. Arriving, Day 2. Doing the Single Thing, and then Day 3. Leaving

that said though, a travel buddy actually sounds like a very good thing for me to bring!! ive done similar things on big family road trips where we would stop to remember to take photos, though those were more of Us than anything else, but i think it would be a nice way to remember to actually TAKE photos!! as well as helping me actually stay calm enough to figure things out :)

[robinsnest2111]

I was today years old when I learned you can use vacation days to pad out your meager paycheck if you worked very few days that month

[silvercaptain24]

Growing up is weird

[pepprs]

i know i need to shut up abt it esp bc i don’t know for sure if i actually got exposed to covid but like. it’s just so fucking frustrating and terrifying. not just in the case of covid but with other things too like driving. you can take every precaution to keep yourself and the people around you safe but all it takes is one selfish careless asshole who can negate that in a heartbeat and ruin your life or maybe even end it in some circumstances. lol

[fadelbison]

memories are such a funny thing - i actually have no idea if i've been on the eurorail! like i know ive been to europe. i know ive travelled between countries in europe. i know ive been on a train in europe but was it the eurorail? it feels like ive been on the eurorail but that also might be because i watched dilwale dulhaniya le jayenge like 1000 times in my childhood

[slechterick]

i just wanna say that, although it's not entirely unprecedented, i cannot overstate my appreciation for the fact that XC2's Torna ~ The Golden Country has a bad ending. it's so excruciatingly fitting for a story about the ravages of war and the horrors of weapons of mass destruction to feature a non-optional unapologetic and thoroughly bad ending.

we don't get to see that often enough in videogames.

[supercantaloupe]

i wish i had a good excuse to just like go and spend 2-3 days in another city across the country

[disdaidal]

Okay, so, now my school might be arranging a 2-week on-the-job-learning trip to Portugal in November-December, for those interested in / lack of experience from foreign countries... but I don't know if I can even apply there now because there's a possibility that my schedule could be filled with other kind of stuff that we're supposed to be doing for this degree at the same time, so. 🙃 I'm kinda mad ngl.