What about you? What is the biggest cultural shock or the most unusual situation you’ve ever experienced while living or traveling abroad? Do you have a habit you picked up from another country? Leave a comment below — I’d absolutely love to hear about your adventures around the world!
Just updating the scoreboard for my latest posts: 32 people absolutely loved my stories, and 16 walked away completely annoyed by me. You know what that means? I was seen, I was heard, and I was officially NOTICED! 💅🏼✨ Whether you clicked the link to la
Just updating the scoreboard for my latest posts: 32 people absolutely loved my stories, and 16 walked away completely annoyed by me.
You know what that means? I was seen, I was heard, and I was officially NOTICED! 💅🏼✨ Whether you clicked the link to laugh with me or just to roll your eyes at my crazy adventures, the important thing is that you clicked, you read, and you gave me your precious engagement. 🤭❤️🙏🏻
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Just updating the scoreboard for my latest posts: 32 people absolutely loved my stories, and 16 walked away completely annoyed by me.
You know what that means? I was seen, I was heard, and I was officially NOTICED! 💅🏼✨ Whether you clicked the link to laugh with me or just to roll your eyes at my crazy adventures, the important thing is that you clicked, you read, and you gave me your precious engagement. 🤭❤️🙏🏻
C'est une belle expérience!
Lol hahahaha that's a funny story, from an external perspective
Denali feels less like visiting a national park and more like attempting to schedule an appointment with a mountain that does not respect you.First of all, there’s a very high chance you simply won’t see the mountain at all. Denali spends most of its life hiding behind clouds like a celebrity avoiding paparazzi. We're the paparazzi. People will visit, wait three days, spend thousands of dollars, and leave having technically experienced “weather near a mountain.”...
Look, Yellowstone is objectively incredible. The landscape is insane: steaming rainbow-colored pools, geysers erupting out of nowhere, herds of bison wandering through fog like the opening scene of a fantasy movie. But the actual experience of visiting Yellowstone is mostly just being aggressively instructed not to do things.
Zion is heartbreakingly beautiful. In pictures and in reality. You come in from the desert and suddenly everything changes: towering cliffs, hanging gardens, rivers, cottonwoods, sunlight bouncing off red stone like the entire canyon has its own internal glow. It genuinely feels biblical. Like you accidentally wandered into the location where prophets hear voices.
Arches is honestly fine. It delivers exactly what it promises: there are arches. You definitely get what you seek, you and the thousands others. Oh you thought it was going to be a magical moment in between alien-arches? Think again.
Yosemite Valley is stunning. Unfortunately, it is also a traffic simulator. You spend half your visit inching forward behind rental SUVs while trying not to sideswipe a cyclist dressed like they’re competing in the Tour de France. Then you finally get out of the car and, yes, okay, El Capitan and Half Dome are unbelievable. You see them, you will NOT climb them*
Rocky Mountain National Park is gorgeous in the same way a 4K television demo is gorgeous. Everything looks fake. The lakes are too reflective, the mountains are too dramatic, the elk wander around with such perfect timing they feel computer-generated.