Hello Dollars, I've got a preposition for you:

So, I've always enjoyed hearing about all the cool places people have seen, and all their experiences whilst trotting the globe; therefore, I think it would be awesome to have a thread telling about some neat things you've seen on your travels. (Or maybe just telling stories about journeys. Just. Travel stuff, yeah?)

Anywho, if anyone has any neato travelling stories, please slap 'em on here!!!

I went to Turkey for a couple of weeks for a poetry competition and I met a bunch of other students from around the world. My favorite part of the whole thing was when we were all on a bus to the award ceremony.. everyone was singing songs in their native languages to pass the time. I kept in touch with some of the people I met for awhile~

I was also able to perform my recitation at a bunch of different places.. and while they didn't pay me, the experience alone was enough and they. gave. over the top presents.

Food was amazing. I've since enjoyed yogurt on my food and kefir.

I'm heading on a road trip from Eugene, Oregon around the U.S.A., I'll be leaving shortly and I suppose I will update this thread with the continuation of my travels.

Other than that I'm not originally from Oregon and I have already traveled across the U.S.A. a few times, I've been all over the South-East, visited New York City and New Jersey, I had a layover in California once. I also went on a trip to Michigan. I jumped into the great lake water and it was extremely cold my body felt like it was going to start shutting down. Anyways, that's a summary of my travels until now, will continue to update.

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I’ve gone from Bend, Oregon to Las Vegas, Nevada now. I stopped in Reno last night and stayed there to rest. Also passed through the Area 51 “Visitor Center” which is really just a convenience store and diner with souvenirs in it, although I’m sure it’s not the only one.

Pretty sure I and a few other members dumped our stories on RTT instead of here, I should find them and copy paste it lmao.

To start off my entry in this thread, let me tell you there are birds INSIDE of Jakarta's Terminal 3 Airport Lounge, 'pics or didn't happen' is attached here.

After leaving Las Vegas I continued to head east to my destination, a few things caught my eye along the way like some kind of altar of the side of the highway outside of Vegas, a Meteor Crater found in Arizona, and of course the Grand Canyon, quite a sight. I wanted to cut my hair off with a knife and throw it into the Canyon but there were a lot of people and it was rather hot so I didn’t want my dog to overheat so I didn’t stay too long. I passed through New Mexico quickly, Texas however was quite abysmal, the scenery was heinous and the food to match. West Memphis was another stop and rest point, the food there was pretty bad too, and the area I stayed in was pretty trashy. After that I headed to Alabama and spent some time there for a couple weeks, I went to the Birmingham Zoo and saw lots of family, so it was a good time. Now I’m heading north to Pigeon Forge, my sister wants to visit Alcatraz East, a crime museum.

I signed up for a trip from Palangkaraya to a waterfall in Muara Tewe. They said the trip would took 7 hours, fair enough. So 7 hours later, we were at a ferry river bridge just outside Muara Tewe. Turns out that the closest bridge to cross said river would take 2 more hours, so we opt for the ferry bridge choice instead.

The queue to cross (traffic jam) the river took us an hour, of waiting. We went off at 9:00 in the morning and starts queuing at 16:30. Took a shot just after we crossed the river, I'd say its a beautiful one.

I knew 'Muara' means upstream, and waterfall usually comes in one pack with it. What I didn't know however, was that Muara Tewe is the literal town's name, but is nowhere near close to said waterfall. We stopped for half or an hour for dinner, now we're at 21:00 and are still on the road.

This'll be a long weekend.

>>7 (Firi) :0 woah that's pretty. Hope you arrive soon though TvT

>>7 That's a long 7 hours, lmao.

>>7 That night, we arrived at a motel sorta place, to settle for the night. Vehicle stopped at 22:00 btw.

Next morning, we continued off from Muro Mountain at 8:30. Hit a few stops here and there for some snacks, but the rest of the road we took was specifically ex-coal/sand/etc mines and roughly cleared out path of the forest.

It really makes you think, when you're very close and personal with the amount of damage we inflict to the environment. Thousand square miles of areas we ravaged, just so we could live comfortably in our homes with all our gadgets and all sorts of things.

Anyways, there's this one occasion when I saw a thin long hill stretching throughout the land. And I recalled Piranesi's impossibly gigantic buildings from Jacob Geller's video, and then a quote from Solar Sands on Monumentality. "If you want your civilization to be remembered, you'd wanna make a huge landmark that can last for millenia. Often times, our predecessor use natural rocks for their landmark (like pyramid) and then carve them into a shape (like moai)."

And then there's the picture attached, taken at 14:05 approximately. I just wondered, can something like AoT's Wall Maria ever be built? Can we carve an entire boulder into a man-made-like structure?

Is this a travel log or a man's pondering thoughts entry?

>>10 We've carved away at mountains and vast swathes of land for generations. That Wall Maria is not even at the beginning of humanity's potential scale. Though, in all honesty, what purpose does that serve? What terrible regime must man come under to build dystopian monoliths like that? I think that's kind of a terrifying train of thought to follow.

>>11 I had those train of thoughts at first, but it just fell off at some point. I still remember vividly just how impossible it would be, and the easiest way to go would be to go dictatorial route. After all, the cost would've definitely been astounding.

I must say though, I'm partly inspired due to The Last Guardian. I mean gosh, who doesn't want to grace their eyes with such a magnificent structure.

>>10 Continuing, road is still bumpy as ever.

We finally arrived at the waterfall at 15:39 or so iirc, deep within the area of coal mines, the roads are still dirt and few heavy machinery & trucks are passing around.

It might not look like it in the original photo, but the green-painted wooden paths blends really well with the tree leaves, closest thing that resembled its beauty would be the green jade stone. Remember the interior of Kung Fu Panda's temple? Yeah something like that.

(attached photo had been digitally edited to depict how the real place looked, its not perfect but you get the idea)

The wooden paths looked more broken down the closer I get to the waterfall. People clearly tried to tame the place, but nature stays unshackled. There's a remain of a room near the waterfall, some sort of what was once a canteen I believe. Its entire roof was folded inside, blocking the upper part of the only entrance. I'd bet a tree fell on top of it some time ago.

Then comes the waterfall, it was huge. I feel like we had severely underestimated the scale of things, I remember how awed I was when I had to physically look upwards just to see the waterfall properly. And then it hit me, this is not the biggest waterfall in the world. I can only imagine how people felt with Niagara.

One and half a day of a trip, just to see the waterfall for an hour or so, or even less. We went to the designated spot of our resting place for the night just before 17:00 soon after. Can't blame them though, the current is getting stronger so we had to opt out. My ear hurts a bit, I don't know whether it was because of the loud sound or the water drops slowly piled up inside them. Yeah, I didn't swim lol.

(Pic taken at day1)

When we started off our voyage at friday morning, there's a flooded area that we passed through just outside the border of our hometown. Police officers are standing on the water to direct oncoming vehicles where the road is, since it was submerged and there are holes on the road which are completely invisible from surface.

There is a construction site submerged, countless civilian vehicles stuck in the middle of the flood, some trucks even got flipped by the current. Some folks who had their vehicle stuck in the submerged hole even stayed overnight with it. Then there are people who had small boats, they used that opportunity to get some cash.

Anyways, it took us from friday morning to saturday noon before reaching the waterfall. Then the plan is to get back home before the work hour starts at monday. So we ride off at sunday morning, the ride is bumpy as ever but no time to waste.

And I bet no one saw it coming, that on 2AM in the morning, we're about to get so much closer and personal with flood.

It started off when one of our tour crew at the front had their car stuck in a submerged hole. Everyone including us at the back of course comes to a halt, the worst part is that the part of the water we stopped at is deeper than most of the flooded areas.

I can hear the exhaust pipe at the back being submerged, the smokes blubbed out of the water once in every occasion. Not only that, the waters are trickling in. The clock being 2AM, of course the police officers aren't staying there overnight to guide us.

I remembered clear as day, how cold the winds are, the star constellation on the right side of the moon shaping into a triangle pointing to the right, I googled it up & I believe I was seeing Perseus.

One of our friend went out to check if the one at the front has gotten unstuck, turns out they can't get out. Traffic jam in the middle of a flood, I can say that's a shitty situation to be in.

All the cars are tightly stacked behind each other, so we have no room to go reverse and pass them. The only way is to have the farthest back car go first and the ones in front followed suite. By the time it was our turn, the water level inside the car had synchronized with the outside.

It was an off-road car, so it was actually pretty tall. But the fact that the water was able submerge our entire foot just shows how high the water level really is.

Our friend was still in the water when we had passed the car in front of us, we decided to charge thru the flood and told him to grab hold on the car's wall between the front and middle door and charged full speed. I wish I recorded that moment, it was rad as hell. But I was too busy saving all our stuff from being submerged, so welp.

We got home at 4AM, soaked with dirty water and wet belongings. Also gotta get all the stuff out of the car and make sure they'll dry themselves out when the sun comes out, before finally clean ourselves and rest a bit. Its already monday.

>>15 You should look into grabbing a GoPro or a similar setup before your next adventure. All of that sounds beautiful, scary, and extremely "rad as hell".

>>15 Flood is finally gone, you can now see how deep the part where the boat gone through. The house as far as I remember didn't get flooded, that's exactly why they build it with those legs. That's also why they have the bridges, its a makeshift little dock.

I sometimes gotta wonder, while going through a path in the forest, what killed the so towering tall trees. They definitely got enough sunlight, nothing around them could block the lights. The fact that they even able to grow that high means its healthy right? So what killed it?

We're on one of those ferry ship again! Didn't have to wait until sunset this time though.

We went to the coast earlier today, it was cloudy and windy.

>>20 What sort of tree is that? It reminds me of one of those old-style Chinese/Japanese paintings.

>>21 Eh? I'm not sure, its just sitting there when I got there so I snapped a picture before moving on. Never really gave it an afterthought, remind me to check when I go there again..?

And yeah, it does look like those tree leaves in old chinese/japanese paintings now that I recalled. One thing that comes to mind is the fact that the Japanese colonized us for a short 5 years period from 1940, perhaps there's a relation to that in some form.

Mural of Saber

I've been meaning to post this somewhere, but I'm not really travelling anywhere so I thought this wouldn't really fit here, but whatever.

unfortunately my picture wont go trough, so imma describe it here. i saw graffiti in a public batroom in italy, and i HAD to take a pic of it. it said: "la vida es dura, pero mas dura es la verdura" translated: "life is hard, but vegetables are harder."

>>24 if you're on PC, open it on paint, resize it accordingly to reduce weight and save it as jpg.

The site had a bias over jpg formats for some reason.

Hypela's-Travels_Full_Documentary_480P_Download-(FastPremium).mpeg when?

>>26 in 200 years, give or take.

We went back to the tea-like river

Many public facilities had been added, it doesn't look like the initial 'undiscovered exotic sight deep in the woods' much anymore and more like a cheap public pool everyone goes too almost like a warzone.

Although that might be because this is the weekend and crowds were at their peak.

I moved still looking for a place been a week >_<

>>28 Rip tea.

>>29 (PathWalker) Good luck findin' house. All this driving you been doin'... could call you RoadieRunner.

>>29 roadrunner running on the road, ganbaru fam.

Had to sleep in the car it's expensive the rooms and food plus gas but it's better here for me and family plus the map showed me there's more members here than Arizona >_<

Possible meetups and things missions and hangouts soon but I need to know where I'm living first :)

>>32 (R&R) Well if you're passing through the Tulsa area I live there.

>>32 >>33 (R&N) If you're passing through Nyanka's house I live in the walls/pipes.

I don't

like

that.

I wonder what happened

Idk, hope Roady is doing well tho.

I'm here just trying to get a place to live get set up and get normal again :)

Just been busy

>>40 Glad to hear you're doin good bud.

Holy damn, I didn't post about "the land where the lightning roams free" here?

I should post about that someday, might took a while to find the relevant picture though, I left my hard disk at home and I won't be home until like, 3 weeks from now I think.

My mom has accidently drove us to Arizona twice so far. How this happened? well, I wanted to hide things out in the desert for fun. Abandoned buildings are so interesting.