"I've survived...."

[mermaidnz]

add all the crazy things you have done while travelling that you survived...

I've survived riding on a motorbike with 2 other people and no helmets....

..... riding an elephant bareback down the street.....

..... eating street food chicken...actually thats a lie, i puked all the next day from it haha


i know theres gonna be some random crazy stories to come out of thise with the super travellers we have here at tpunk!!

[Elizabeth]

I survived

...spending the night in some random Austrian drunk guy's flat.

...hitching from DC to NC alone in one day (way more pervy guys in US than Europe).

[TheJake]

.....brazilian hookers
.....someone dying in my arms in Guam
.....insane japanese girls
.....hitchhiking with bible bangers
.....hitchhiking with an incredibly drunk driver over the 14k ft mtn passes of the Rockies
.....peeing on a toronto bus station in front of two cops

[simply_angelic]

...bungee jumping over a river that holds grade 5 rapids
...the DRC
...standing right 2m's away from a cheetah with her baby
...being within a meter of hyenas, lions, elephants, buffalo...etc, etc
...climbing a mountain (ok..it may have been a mini one...)
...the 3 hour trek to find the mountain gorillas in the rain (then 2 hours back)
...catching a ride with a random stranger in Jo'Berg
...when some punk kid tried to rob me
...traveling solo! (In Africa and Europe!)
...learning to surf in Portugal
...thousands of pounds of Gelato...mmm...really took one for the team there...
...learning to scuba dive in malawi
...mototaxis in the DRC

[ajb3000]

... hitchhiking in iran, albania and kosovo (among others)
... iranian taxis (i was in 3 car accidents in as many weeks)
... a 3-day horse trek in the kyrgyz tian shan mountains where at one point the reigns fells off while galloping up the side of a valley
... a kyrgyz bus journey when the driver drove along bad mountain roads at night with the lights off to "recharge the battery", then crashed into a goat
... turkmenistan bureaucracy
... getting a lift with a kid on his scooter down a 3 mile gravel track in albania

There are loads more but I'm really hungover and can barely type.

[marc873]

...Riding Viking horses in lava fields in Iceland with verrrrry loose english saddles.
...Too many crazy vagrants in Amsterdam with odd intentions
...4wheeling on mountain cliffs in Santorini and Ios
...Ios in general!!! haha
...Riding on the back of a crazy italians scooter with no helmet and a full pack on through the back streets of Ischia
...Sitting on the tarmac of a US Air flight for over an hour after drinking way too many beers in the airport, and the bitch flight attendant refusing to let me get up to piss!!!!!!!!

[expatben]

Chinese bureaucracy
getting really sick in China
crossing the road in a busy Chinese street during rush hour with no traffic lights and cross walks-its a like a giant game of frogger but with no redo.
Getting lost as a child in France and having to ride in a Police station-actually that part was really cool.
Sleeping on a bench in a Belgian rail shack
Missing the last train in Paris and having to get a ride home from a stranger who worked at the station.

[Diorama]

-my incredible fall off my mountain bike in killarney national park, ireland. I was left with a sprained ankle and covered in horse shit (yes i slid into poo!)
- three day trek in Myanmar. It was basically trekkin in mud up to my ankles!
-Random hitch hiking experience in costa rica. Thought the guy was a taxi driver, turned out he wasn't. He dropped us off at an isolated beach...hmmm
-15 hour bus ride from hell in myanmar. only foreigners on the bus, no clue what we were doing, zero leg room, 3 am stop in the middle of nowhere while random army guards checked our id, the worst outhouses of my life...
-waking up in a random hotel room in dublin with eight welsh guys. (thank god nothing happend to me!)
-canoeing for three days straight in the noosa everglades, australia...sounds glamorous..wait til the butt pain kicks in..
-running out of money in western australia...(umm hi mom..)
-getting locked out of my hostel in oban, scotland and having to sleep in a phone booth
-having our car break down in the middle of fuck all nowhere, australia. thank god the man with the satellite phone drove by an hour later..

[AKguacamole]

Crossing a river waist high with the tide coming up in total darkness, drunk; getting swept down a river; a riptide in Costa Rica...more to come this is a great thread

[ChasinJason1313]

... Having a ledge break away under my feet while free climbing a mountain(fell about 15 feet before catching an outcropping with my hands)

... Sleeping on a concrete floor in the Venice airport overnight cuz the security guard said I couldn't sleep on the benches.(How lame!)

... Running with the bulls

... Falling asleep standing up in Pamplona, also slept in a park and an ATM cubby thing.

... almost drowned while saving someone from drowning in San Diego(In hindsight I should have just punched him, then he wouldn't have pulled me down too)

... my first two days in Munich with $0 dollars....ooooh, I could almost taste the beer.

... being treated like Brad Pitt in a Filipino bar

... a five foot rattle snake wrapped around my leg(of course it wouldn't have been there is I wasn't a dumbass)

... high expectations....childhood....life.....so far.

[worldwidemike]

...being pulled off the street in Panama by policemen and stuffed into the back of a van.
...a day with no water below sea level in the Israeli desert near the Dead Sea (and no, you can't drink THAT water!).
...hitch-hiking in El Salvador, and being picked up by a guy with a loaded shotgun.
...getting drunk in an "off limits" bar while in the military in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
...swimming barefoot in an area clearly marked, "Danger: Stonefish".
...black market money changing in Myanmar's capital of Yangon.
...an attempted mugging in South Africa.
...More than 60 countries so far...only 135 more to go (by some counts)...!

worldwidemike

[Somnambulation]

...peeing on the tracks of the London underground, when one of the rails is electrified (oblivious to the danger, managed not to hit the electrified one)
...stumbling upon a Grizzley bear eating fish on the beach in Alaska, and getting a picture of him
...watching bulls run right past my face after falling during the running of the bulls
...improprieties of all sorts

[raoulduke]

...a Contiki tour
...getting mugged in Valencia
...running with the bulls
...a car accident
...changing aeroplanes whilst drunk in the UAE
...flying easyjet with a knife in my bag

[BedtimeontheMoon]

Crazy Chinese taxi drivers...

"Chicken....Maybe...." (responses from waiters when asking what meat was in China)

Getting on a "No Service" train in Barcelona, getting locked in and having the train go dark... when I needed to get to the airport

Walking alone in Montemarte in Paris early Sunday morning encountering a penis wiggling street worker...

hmmm more will come to me i'm sure... lol

[c0urt]

some of these are epic you guys keep is up

-buying a plane ticket to the united states in a bar in germany
-having two guys trying to rob me and then calling them both bitches
- hitching with a truck driver who didnt speak english and told me "no worries"
-8+ hours in a airport terminal after a terrorist attack so their were no liquids at all.. yes drinking in the bathroom in the EU
-banging a chick using hand gestures find out she was married
getting lost on my bike due to bad directions in a state i didnt know
- might as well post this (food poisoning on my bike in the middle of the night trapped on train concourse, no bathroom. throwing up. and then I took a dump on my self. rode the train tossed my underwear in someone's yard clean up with their news paper rode till i found a bathroom then went home.

I have managed to sleep in some jacked up places (under bushes, on rooves). I usually atleast try to hide.

[mermaidnz]

have to add from the cambodia trip last week...


eating a dollars worth of crickets, then doing it again the next 2 nights....
climbing up the side of a crazy ass pyramid in siam reap.....
driving my taxi drivers car drunk..all of a meter, it scared me too much, i cant drive....

[IDDQD]

-getting hit by a car on my scooter going 60k
-five days in a Taiwanese hospital
-wrongfully being the prime suspect in the murder of my close friend...in Taiwan
-apprx. 2000 hours in class teaching English to kids
-currently surviving 3 nights of Brazillian Jiu Jitsu and 2 nights of Muay Thai a week

[mermaidnz]

Originally Posted by IDDQD

-getting hit by a car on my scooter going 60k
-five days in a Taiwanese hospital
-wrongfully being the prime suspect in the murder of my close friend...in Taiwan
-apprx. 2000 hours in class teaching English to kids
-currently surviving 3 nights of Brazillian Jiu Jitsu and 2 nights of Muay Thai a week

holy fuck dude :eek:

[joe7f]

You can read about Bo's er...um "adventure" here

Nice to see you on the boards again

--Joey

[Rhine]

I survived in Banja Luka 1992-1993.
I survived 2 weeks cleaning toilets at Fort de Nogent.