I long to go to a place that is excited to see an American and I'm excited to be there.

Welcoming & safe? Not interested

I mean you can take photos of shit in Saudi Arabia as long as its not their holy city.

Like, I miss the ages that people were excited to learn each other's differences

customs, etc

That's when travel seemed fun

Do they speak English, did you hire an interpreter?

Exactly THE TOURISTS WERENT SUPPOSE TO STAY FOREVER

@Flint depends on which one. Kazakhstan was safe and orderly. Kyrgyzstan less so. Tajikistan was disorderly but safe because the people are not inclined toward violence despite their fairly recent civil war.

I get the feeling it would be nicer to live somewhere homogeneously foreign like Japan than somewhere like here where my daily life is 20% white

I guess I've only thought about visiting barren lands and never populated places with histories of great wars

Muslim countries are pretty welcoming. They think you are going to hell and are uncivilized but they are friendly

Are you near Baltimore

Me?

nm

@Logan did someone arrange the travel for you or did you wing it?

I have a buddy there that sends me headlines daily. Can't imagine

Guess the country

@guacmerchant guatemala

@YourFundamentalTheorum Nope lol

@Logan sorry to ask so much, just super curious

@guacmerchant Zimbabwe

@YourFundamentalTheorum Nope lol

or Somalia

see if it's not one of these three then you're a racist bigot

Ok well fugg

because those countries are *not* shitholes

despite what Alex Jones would tell you

Sign me up

they are all valid cultures

and are just as good as yours

Honestly if a friend asked me, "You wanna go to Chernobyl and then go to bunch of Muslim countries?" I'd say "get away from me and my family" lol

Shithole is a technical term now OK the President of the United States used it

and the only reason they are not doing well is whitey

@Flint I would think he's inviting me to play STALKER

Why does the new culture keep shooting guns around my neighberhood at night

pewpew

@Flint just showed up. If you use the thorntree forums you can do anything. Same with couchsurfing.

Lots of my nights were free because of couchsurfing

@YourFundamentalTheorum The country is Azerbaijan, crazy to believe I thought it was somewhere like China.

You have interesting stories with couchsurfing?