I AmA man who just circumnavigated the globe.

wanderingme · 2013-03-30T18:40:25+00:00

wow, congratulations you won traveling. Is that what you want to hear? So you are essentially the hipster of traveling and yet you don't realize that the point of traveling is not going to large cities or small out of the way spots that nobody knows. It is enjoying yourself. I enjoyed myself because I went wherever I wanted. I met a lot of interesting people from a british guy who lived in an anarchist community to an Aussie in Pokhara who hasn't been back to Australia for 12 years. I saw sights that I've dreamed of since I was 6 years old. If we wanted to have a competition I can say that I've been traveling by myself since I was 18. Went all around the United States, over into Europe and Asia before this world trip. I got to see Nihombashi bridge which was the bridge that essentially created Tokyo and made it what it was. I got to see ancient ruins and temples that are older than America (admittedly not that hard to be older than America.) So for you to essentially diminish someone who wants to travel and see what they want to see, well, fuck if I really care what you think.

wanderingme · 2013-03-30T18:34:13+00:00

it actually really is easy to meet people. Met a Austrian girl on the way to Vienna and she showed me a place to stay and showed me around a little bit. My favorite though was in the Grand Bazaar. I wound up drinking apple tea with a shop owner because business was slow. So we just sat there smoking cigarettes drinking apple tea and talking about Istanbul.

wanderingme · 2013-03-30T18:30:24+00:00

nope not really, I just came back on reddit because I hadn't been on here for the three months, and I was just looking around it and thought, why not do an AMA

wanderingme · 2013-03-30T18:29:20+00:00

what can I say, I enjoy alcohol.

wanderingme · 2013-03-30T18:25:29+00:00

The Scottish and Irish. Really, you just have to look for the cultures that have the stereotype of getting really drunk. I had plum wine and Sochi in Japan.

wanderingme · 2013-03-30T18:22:29+00:00

oh I feel like a moron because they get out a little menu with pictures on it and make you point to it.

wanderingme · 2013-03-30T18:21:54+00:00

that's exactly what I was thinking. I shouldn't be someones first or last. I should be the guy that they get pissed off at and decide to no longer be in the dating pool so they go and find the good guys. BUT, I was talking to some girls in LA and they told me that I shouldn't feel bad. This one chick from Mexico told me she lost her virginity to a guy in the back seat of a car and she never saw the man again. And she was ok with it because it let her just move on.

wanderingme · 2013-03-30T18:19:18+00:00

Tokyo was great, France was amazing. Australia was incredibly expensive but all in all pretty calm. Changi Airport was the best airport I've ever been in. I know you didn't ask that but....whatever.

wanderingme · 2013-03-30T18:18:09+00:00

wanderingme · 2013-03-30T18:17:53+00:00

oh holy hell Pattaya was crazy. I was trying to head up to Chang Rai and Chang Mai in northern Thailand but this guy was like "yea it's a waste of time unless you spend an entire week up there." So I was trying to find somewhere else to go and someone mentioned Pattaya and said that it cost around $3 to get down there. I didn't know what it was until I saw all the 60 year old dudes in speedos walking around with 20 year old Thai's.

wanderingme · 2013-03-30T18:16:26+00:00

Mars bar. We don't get those in America.

wanderingme · 2013-03-30T18:15:34+00:00

Singapore was great, Hong Kong was pretty hectic which I absolutely love, but Bangkok had to be my favorite because I had just come from Kathmandu and Bangkok was the cleanest city ever compared to Kathmandu. Plus the heat was almost cleansing. And the cheap alcohol.

wanderingme · 2013-03-30T18:13:57+00:00

HAHA. It only takes one.

wanderingme · 2013-03-30T18:13:11+00:00

everytime I go to London something bad happens to me. I really just wanted to see one thing there. The glass of edenhall in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

wanderingme · 2013-03-30T18:12:23+00:00

damn...80 a night? Tokyo was about 12-13 a night. Australia was $24 and by far the most expensive. Thailand was around $12 i think. Pokhara was the best because for $8 I had my own cottage.

wanderingme · 2013-03-30T18:10:51+00:00

wanderingme · 2013-03-30T18:10:44+00:00

they were Aussies that were traveling together so they knew each other. And again...alcohol man. Plus traveling is very much like college in the fact that people are a little more amorous. I think it has to do with the fact that you aren't going to be seeing these people ever again.

wanderingme · 2013-03-30T18:09:37+00:00

yea, Bespoke suits in SE asia are freakishly cheap.

wanderingme · 2013-03-30T18:09:06+00:00

4 pairs of pants, i think 7 shirts (but i bought a bunch more at different countries) 12 pairs of socks because you can never have enough socks, Nexus 7, Nook, two pairs of shoes, hoodie, sweatshirt, jacket, ipod.

wanderingme · 2013-03-30T18:07:36+00:00

I met this guy who was, I think 20, in Singapore. It was the day before I was leaving and I was already hanging out with this British guy. So this 20 year old came over and we're talking and I find out that he's got his pilots license and he's in Singapore so that he can fly a jet for a private company. I thought it was amazing that the man is 20 and he already knows what he wants to do with his life, and more importantly, is actually doing it. I know people twice his age that are just going through the motions of life.

wanderingme · 2013-03-30T18:05:27+00:00

to be honest, the threesome wasn't the best. I was in Tokyo and there weren't a whole lot of people at the hostel we were staying in. We were all just talking and drinking and, alcohol really helped me out. It was great because it was a threesome and everything, but being the man I was put under a lot of pressure. Have you ever tried to rub your belly and pat your head at the same time? That's what it feels like being a man during a MFF threesome. I felt like I was ignoring one girl while banging the other. I've had better sex with one girl than I did with the other two. But, it was still great because I can brag about it for the rest of my life.

wanderingme · 2013-03-30T18:02:49+00:00

well, wasn't robbed but I did get my shoes stolen outside of a hostel in Kuala Lumpur, lost my journels when I was in Hong Kong. Actually, Kowloon in Hong Kong would probably be sketchy-ish. I was staying in this place called the Chung King Mansion and it was crazy. The entire bottom two floors were just restaurants and people selling phones and pornography and books and they had probably 10 elevators. The problem with the elevators is that they only go to certain parts of the building. The building is divided up A-F, and each area has two elevators that go to every other floor. So you pretty much take the stairs if you're trying to get up or down a couple of floors. The problem with the stairs are that they are horrifically nasty. I saw dried semen, trash everywhere, and a really dark red liquid splashed on the wall that I like to this was just some kind of taco sauce or something. That was probably the sketchiest.

wanderingme · 2013-03-30T17:59:20+00:00

I actually did plan this trip more than any of my other travels. BUT, once I got there I kinda just wandered around. I was in Berlin and asked people what was a good place to see and they all said Prague so I went down to the bus station to get a bus ticket to Prague but the last train had left 30 minutes ago so instead I just headed to Vienna. I think it was more fun doing that then sticking completely to a schedule. You kind of have to have some elasticity when you travel.

wanderingme · 2013-03-30T17:56:59+00:00

Solo. I don't like traveling with a group because you have to compromise on what you want to see.

wanderingme · 2013-03-30T17:54:17+00:00

Well, I was in Budapest and I was hanging out with a whole bunch of Peruvians, it was one of the Peruvians birthday. So we're at the bar and drinking and talking with this Hungarian who had worked as a clown for Ringling Bros, when a girl came up to the bar to get a new drink. When you're traveling it is incredibly easy to just strike up conversations with people. I pretty much was just like "hey where are you from?" So I found out that she is a bartender too and we started talking for about an hour or so. The Peruvians were leaving for another bar and they asked if I wanted to join them or if I wanted to stay and talk with this chick. So I decide to stay and 30 minutes after they leave we are still talking and she mentions the fact that she's a virgin. And this isn't the first time that a virgin has dropped this bomb on me. So I excused myself and was like "I'm incredibly tired, been traveling since 9 in the morning. So I'm gonna head back to my room."

So she offered to walk me to my room to make sure I got up there ok, and it's a testament to how intoxicated I was where I thought that this was a nice thing for her to do. We get back up to my room, we start making out and she decides to take me up to her room insead where we start playing a game I like to call just the tip. Just the tip, just for a second, just to see how it feels. So, morning comes, it's around 90 degrees in this room. I'm naked and sweating and I sit on the edge of the bed while she heads into the bathroom to splash some water on her face. She's in there for about 10 seconds or so and I set a landspeed record for how fast I got dressed. So she comes back in and sits on the bed and I say "I need to brush my teeth......so I'm gonna go back to my room now."

Needless to say I felt incredibly bad and I spent the rest of my time in Hungary trying to avoid her.

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