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[anyway]

...taken public transport with livestock aboard (Colombia).
...taken public transport riddled with bullet holes (Copper Canyon, Mexico).
...bribed public officials (Colombia/Ecuador border).
...been a victim of (attempted) mugging (several).
...been a victim of a shakedown (confidence scheme/fraud) (Colombia/Venezuela border).
...had the parasites/amoebas so bad you couldn't stand up straight (Ecuador).
...slept in public places (park, parked car, etc.) (several)
...seen whole rotting carcasses near tourist attractions (Mexico City).
...ridden on top of the bus (Ecuador).
...received inoculations at an airport (Peru).
...begged for a visa extension (Ecuador).

P.S. This isn't intended to proclaim myself a 'real traveler' but instead to find out how far I have to go (and hear some good stories).

[Ya-ta Boy]

...been flat broke in a foreign country with no ticket home.

[sojourner1]

...bought baby formula for a begging skin and bones baby in Cambodia. Actually a woman was carrying the baby going, "milk milk." I suspect that it's a corrupt ploy where bad dudes have her out to get that expensive baby formula sold in Siem Reap to sell on the black market while the woman and children are made to do it or die and then starve. The worlds a corrupt place and don't believe anything you hear until you see it.

...attacked in Amsterdam with a drop kick to the knee which took out my ACL and the Dutch couldn't come off of a set of crutches for under $300, but at least I only had to get to Germany for help via the train and the politi took me to the central train station.

...rented the nicest faciest hotel in Budapest for only USD $65 a night.

...toured Poipet, Cambodia via motorbike for 2 terrifying and adventurous hours.

...walked where wild elephants lay down at night in Khao Sok, Thailand. (get off the jungle trail at your own risk)

...petted and kissed the big tiger cats in Kanchanaburi, Thailand with no protection.

...drove motor cycles for my 1st time ever while in Thailand.
...learned how to drive on the left side with no problemas.
....got on motor cycles with no helmet for blood curdling rides.
...drove and walked around Bosnia in 1996 with land mines inches away from my tires and footsteps while all utilities and infrastructure was down and everything had bullet holes with skeletons laying in burned up vehicles on the sides of the road as well as houses blowed up with the dead occupants still present and rotting in the Summer sun. Grossed me out.

...got on private jet in a mud field in 3rd world war zone. Got those white leather seats and carpet dirty..

...got pick pocketed by a little boy in Cologne, Germany stadtmitte and caught him physically and took back my wallet.

...discovered how trance is the best music on Earth while in Germany.

...walked the very old cobble stone streets my ancestors walked on.

Travel with insurance and smart protective gear and don't wait around to be bait... I learned the hard way.

[weatherman]

[anyway]

[Stevie_B]

... gone two weeks washing only from a bucket.

... shat water and your will to live into a hole in the ground.

... eaten an animal's dick and scrotum.

... eaten an animal foetus.

... spent a number of days with a red dot on your forehead.

... bought musical instruments that you'll never learn to play.

... eaten with a rat at your shoulder.

... gone higher than 5,500m.

... negotiated for two hours over the price of bedsheet.

... become completely desensitized to the halt, the lame, and the hideously deformed.

... developed a hatred for Canadians/Israelis/your fellow countrymen.

[VanIslander]

... been pistol-whipped in Vancouver for sticking your nose into a drug buy

... cliff dived in New Zealand from up high into shallow water, tearing your achilles tendon

... gotten lost in Japan and had a bright dye job of a cute young thing do sign language with you for thirty minutes in a fun and funny attempt to communicate destination and directions

... played chess on the streets of San Francisco and have the homeless-looking grubby guy you beat at it follow you for ten blocks afterwards yelling in frustration

[nicholas_chiasson]

-starved for a day looking forward to the airplane food cause you were so broke you couldn't eat
-lived at an airport for 24 hours cause you had no money to stay anywhere else
-been hauled off a bus at the estonian/russian border

[merlot]

...been so stoned in Amsterdam you couldn't operate your camera or cross the street.

[merlot]

...flown to Las Vegas with no luggage for a 24 hour party vacation...and ending up in Juraez, Mexico three days later, wearing the same clothes, with zero money.

[merlot]

... SCUBA dived in the Bay of Pigs, Cuba (110 ft.)awesome

[politica]

Got giardia from swimming in a river (India)
Been bitch-slapped by an Alitalia stewardess (somewhere between Mumbai and Milan)
Been mistaken for an Israeli in Palestine (Bethlehem, more than once)
Lived in a war zone (the West Bank)
Not showered for more than a week (more times than I'd like to admit to)
Slept in your car (all over the U.S. West and Midwest)
Had your passport "red-flagged" (at the Israel-Jordan border)
Have the IDF mistake your clarinet for a bomb (Tel Aviv)
Taken a train in India

I'm sure I'll think of more . . .

[Proustian]

......had a Russian soldier put a gun in your face cause you were in the restricted area of Gorki Park
..... been finger printed and held by Chinese police cause some idiot thought you were a terrorist (maps of the city are a dead give away)
.....been surrounded and mugged by midget gypsy pickpockets in St Petersburg (kind of tickles actually)
....waited at Healthrow for a motorcycle courier to arrive with your ticket as you are told the check in counter is about to close
....flown in such bad turbulence that the stewardess starts to shake and cry.
.....met your/my wife in a dingy hostel in Beijing.

By the way, this thread really rocks!

[eamo]

[BS.Dos.]

...Passed out drunk with a Puerto Rican hooker's pu55y stuck to your face.