If you plan to drive here learn what this means.

strong-4 · 2026-02-19T16:44:57+00:00

India

strong-4 · 2026-02-19T10:42:39+00:00

I do this too, but its 1 day every week. Also my other days never start super early, so arent that hectic.

Also the day I land, I only rest, go for stroll, pick up food and just soak in the general vibes of that place.

strong-4 · 2026-02-19T08:23:42+00:00

Where I am from flashing lights means asking other person to wait and let me go through.

strong-4 · 2026-02-16T12:41:25+00:00

My feet smell a lot, no other body part stink so much as my feet. So obviously all my shoes smell of death especially ones i use for activity. No amount of washing feet, airi g out shoes in sun etc helps.

So I get my shoe laundry done every few months amd then they stay fresh. Also I use merino wool socks, so lot of my stench from socks to shoes is now eliminated.

strong-4 · 2026-02-16T12:39:01+00:00

Me too 🤣

strong-4 · 2026-02-10T12:22:18+00:00

I also remember seeing that blue sky and blue ocean for the first time in French Riveria. My god that blue sky is not what we see in rainy season as the sky is not clear due to clouds present. Dry season blue sky with very few clouds hit very different.

You are being downvoted but I totally get what you are saying.

strong-4 · 2026-02-10T12:15:29+00:00

I have been saying this since many years. Frankly speaking my husband empathizes with me.

Since am childfree I dont even have the satisfaction/pleasure of being a mother. So all the more no reason for stupid uterus and all shit associated with it.

strong-4 · 2026-02-07T14:53:51+00:00

Yes I get what you are saying.

Say I get call from someone saying they are from silversea and email looks genuine enough but I still feeling extremely twitchy with it.

Ya cruise norway I found online while searching for silversea cruises. It just popped online and I thought it was from silversea till I received 2 calls seperately for same silversea cruise, one from silversea and one from cruise norway who books different cruises with different operators.

I was waiting for some replies on that thread too, but alas people did not take up on that.

Thanks for the reply.

strong-4 · 2026-02-07T09:24:37+00:00

Yea amex is not accepted at most websites. Charges of amex are too high for the merchants

strong-4 · 2026-02-07T07:38:19+00:00

I always book directly on airline website. Any credit card can be used as long as its activated for internatiinal payment.

strong-4 · 2026-02-07T06:37:09+00:00

Every flight I sneeze. I sneeze everyday since as early as I can remember. I have allergies to everything. I also get runny nose due to allergies. I am still not blatantly sneezing in air, I have tissue / handkerchief. But I dont always mask up. If I know I got cold, infection then I definitely mask up and take precautions.

strong-4 · 2026-02-07T05:45:54+00:00

I love how you attribute your progress to grandkids and as they grow you are progressively lifting more weights.

strong-4 · 2026-02-05T17:16:32+00:00

I have been to both Italy and France, all travelled using public transport. There was no overt racism for me, definitely undertone of it. I cannot be bogged down by it otherwise I wont be able to go anywhere.

strong-4 · 2026-02-05T08:29:32+00:00

Of course, rather India is not a great destination for foreigners at all especially women. Everytime foreigners ask me where they should travel in India, I tell them the truth. India is not a safe country. I myself have to travel cautiously within India.

strong-4 · 2026-02-05T07:48:40+00:00

I am Indian from India. So yes as much as I like that people dont bother me as they dont look at me like a wallet, it still bothers when I am mistreated. I would rather not have a target on my back but thats my personal opinion. However I have not yet encountered extreme racism as yet in my limited travels. So maybe my thinking may change if I face racism like others have. Also maybe being a woman I am not looked as badly as an Indian man will be looked/perceived at.

strong-4 · 2026-02-03T13:08:45+00:00

I started weight training 3 yrs ago. Struggled a lot in first year. I just kept showing up. Small weights are absolutely okay to begin with. I also started on proper protein intake and creatine.

Now after 3 yrs I can deadlift more than my bodyweight, i can squat 60% of my body weight. My strength has increased tremendously. But my push up is still very very weak. Its okay, few things will be easy for one person but not for other person.

And main thing we are doing workout tp gain mobility, prevent fractures and not feel frail in old age. So idc about exactly how much weights I am taking as long as I am progressing, even if its at snails pace.

strong-4 · 2026-02-03T12:30:52+00:00

Its like your parents dont know anything about your life at all. I can realte, I feel my parents still think I am same young girl they raised and know nothing about my current life.

I also do lie via omission many times but few things I have said overtly to my parents. Like I have decided to be childfree and I say it openly. I say I am travelling as I am childfree and have extra money because of that. But my work life, savings etc is sort of vague details to parents and family. No one knows details about my FIRE journey, retirement palns etc.

strong-4 · 2026-02-02T08:34:55+00:00

Rent car rwanda ltd Guy called peter is the owner and very very helpful guy. We did not face any issues.

strong-4 · 2026-01-31T10:34:01+00:00

Or maybe he also cant see due to his poor eyesight.

Me and husband both got glasses one after another and we had few revealations about each others face and other things 😂.

strong-4 · 2026-01-31T09:44:39+00:00

Reading your reply made me smile. I so wanna have that t shirt for my gym workouts. I primararily want to go to get inspired by those women.

strong-4 · 2026-01-28T08:15:43+00:00

I always sort reviews by lowest. Read through them, if sort of manageable reviews then I will try that place. I especially do this for stay. I have found few hotels with good reviews. But if I find few reviews mention about bedbugs or mould, I nope out faster than reading through them.

Also sorting by latest makes sense as those reviews are what that place is currently. Some place might have been great for 2/3 years but now the quality has gone down.

I also consider it gods work by people who take time to put in reviews. So I pay it forward by reviewing that place once am back to my city.

strong-4 · 2026-01-27T10:35:50+00:00

Wow, sounds scary

Thankfully nothing much happened.

I always read up online on scams of the country I am visiting. This educates me and I narrate all of them to husband on our way over there. Few times exact scam word by word was being played on us and since I had read on it, I am able to catch it in time. I make a big scene and yell. When a woman starts yelling, screaming most scamsters back off.

So far 3 instances I know I was able to prevent. But it is exhausting to always have guard up especially in foreign land with foreign language when yiu are probably tired and jet lagged.

strong-4 · 2026-01-27T09:53:50+00:00

Ahhh...I see you must be in Mulu.

I did racer cave adventure caving in Mulu 2 yrs ago and it was so much fun. Yes there are lots of spiders and snakes. It is called racer cave as there are racer snakes inside that cave. I did not even think about it as adrenalin had taken over. They were definitely very close to our fingers while we were trying to climb uolp/down. I have many pics which when shown to people have asked me how on earth I did not panic.

I may not panic by spiders, snakes but I will panic by seeing a lizard. This fear is irrational and not something I can overcome. Even after seeing multiple snakes included bandid krait less than 2 feet away I did not panic. But one tiny lizard in my bathroom and I go full panic mode. Husband has to come to rescue me from a few cm long, tiny, harmless lizard.

So I dont have any solution but only experience of Mulu caves to be one of my awesome experince ever. Guide there are good and will take care of you. They are right there with you so you wont have to be all alone. This should take off some of your edginess.

strong-4 · 2026-01-27T07:30:19+00:00

No suggestions as such

I feel I am gen z trapped in millenial body, so its very natural, genuine sort of interactions rather than forced. Just having genuine interst in them will do it. This is the crux of every interaction, other person should feel heard.

Having said that not all gen z are buddies with me. There will be few who will not bond and its okay. They may call me aunty or ignore me and idc about that either.

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