Travel stories.

[Bas]

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[Bas]

soon.

*taps foot*

[GOD]

The Philippineses
Was there for about a week.

Can't remember exactly where we were. I know we were in Quezon City and Manila and the areas nearby.
Also went through some serious jungle area on our way to maybe one of the other islands.
The guys in Quezon City we stayed with lived in an apartment with their mom and it felt like the suburbs in the states.
The dude (Ban) who we stayed with in Manila lived with his mom and siblings in a really neat homemade "house".
Lots of dirt and corrugated sheetboard. There was an extra room with a couple beds. Don't think there was electricity. His mom made really good food for us out of basically nothing. Downtown Manila has a bad pollution problem and people wearing dust masks is quite common. We got to ride around in some Jeepneys:



Those things are fucking EVERYWHERE. and a great cheap way to get around.
I wish I coulda spent more time exploring there but didn't really have a chance.
All in all it was a good time and a fun culture to see in action. People seemed genuinely happy.
They all got mad bed bug bites to remind us of our time there that didn't heal for a week.
I somehow didn't get any.

[Bas]

thnx

[Bas]

This is barely even a travel story but I happened to be out of the country when it happened so fuck it.

So I was somewhere in Cuba in some building somehwere (I don't even remember where but it was a building with lots of wood and stuff) and I had to take a piss double time. So I find the rooms where I hear toilets flushing, I look up to see which is mens and weminz and all I see is above one door, a picture of a top hat, and above the other a picture of a cane. It was like somebody mugged the monopoly guy and put his shit up there as decoration. I mean, wtf? how am I supposed to figure this shit out? After trying to figure this out for a few minutes I just said screw it and eenie meenie miney moed my way into the top hat room. I went in, did my thing and as I left my stall so did some woman in the stall next to me (though she had kind of a bulldyke look to her). She didn't say anything to me, my guess is she thought SHE was in the wrong one.

yeah.... I saw nothing.

[Bas]

Random

When I was in Panama within 10 minutes of landing I saw the airport staff strip search some guy right out in the open in front of everyone (Nothing but professionals working at Tocumen International). Seeing a stranger's junk that early is an interesting way to start a trip, reminds me I have seen another man's penis in every country I've been to... very odd. The biggest one (by a lot actually) was Cuban if you're wondering.

i was not

[Bas]

^^^ You were the gentlest though.