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I've only once had something stolen from my luggage (a swiss army knife) and that was in Johannesburg.

>>1122839
Only time I've had something stolen (a printer in a checked suitcase) was on a long Asian itinerary. Could have been in Taipei, Hong Kong, Bangkok, or Khon Kaen. I don't generally have appliances in my luggage anymore.

>>1122839
Johannesburg can be pretty bad if you dont pay attention to your belongings. There is visible security walking about, but it doesn't necessarily deter some opportunists.

Also be aware that there have been recent reports about a crime syndicate on flights to Asian countries where they ransack your overhead stored luggage when you're either asleep or gone to the bathroom.

Check out Grindr

>>1122030
I'm straight but man I wish there was a heterosexual equivalent to grindr. Too bad girls just go on tinder for validation

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>>1122029

If you have time to head up to Santa Fe, the art center Meow Wolf is pretty wild. That or something outdoorsy in Albuquerque like riding the tram up to the Sandia Mtns crest

Thanks! Good advice

Further I'd like to know what is the best city or town in Texas for a genuine Texan experience. Does someone know something about that?

>>1121588
I grew up in texas til I was 17. I've driven around here and there as soon as I could. It really depends on your definition of "genuine Texan experience" if you take the i10 route, which I imagine you will, near the end of your trip you'd have the option of going through San Antonio, which is where the Alamo is at. A lot of Hispanic culture with some areas still having the old times western look. But if you really want true western look you'd have to go further south to Laredo. Although it's dangerous what with all the drug lord's and all that, that's where you'll most likely find the Adobe church houses, and people getting around on horseback.

>>1111548
>LA
>taxis
>public transit

These are not commonly associated with LA for a reason. I live here, and I'm the only person I know that uses the subway every day -- but I do it with a bike. Without a bike, it'd be a restrictively far distance to walk from WeHo to the Red Line (Hollywood/Highland), and you probably don't want to rent bikes for 3 people every day. Buses are 95% reliable when you use Google Maps, but fuck buses.

LA is great if you love movies. Take a chance on whatever Cinefamily is playing. Also: The New Bev, American Cinematheque (Egyptian Theater is closer to WeHo).

Hollywood Bowl season will be going during July; LA Phil is one of the best orchestras in the world, and it's cheap as fuck if you buy a nosebleed ticket and sneak down to a closer tier.

Bars: The Edison (pricey, dress code), Bar EightyTwo (arcade bar), The Echo/Echoplex (it's all about the music though); The Standard in Downtown is a pretty cool rooftop bar.

>>1111548
>I'll be with my missus and a friend of hers
>We're from Australia
>anyone got some great recommendations for some trendy bars?

This cannot be real lol, Australian kucks traveling thousands of miles just to do MORE drinking. The only thing you're missing is a fist fight.

This is why the French are passing you in likeability, at this rate you guys are going to fall in last place fast.

sounds like you don't really know LA.

Let me fill you in.

It will be a letdown. LA is not the sunny shiny city of beautiful beaches and pristine long lined avenues of palm trees. It is a flat grey smoggy sprawl of about 20 cities that bleed into each other to create an expanse of shit. Hollywood is a sad sad place filled with asian tourists and pathetic individuals who fell in love with the romanticized idea of California and came for stardom and never left. trendy and hip pockets of town exist in various places but give way to unorganized old strip malls and bland cityscape just a few minutes in any given direction. It is not the California you imagine.

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>le ebin "i'm going to leave the country if x wins" maymay

no you're not.

>>>/pol/

>>1123909
I love how there's a bunch of idiots who say the exact same thing every single election and none of you ever act upon it.

>>1123910
I don't like any of these candidates.
Just worried for my kids, I didn't have them last election.

>>1123819
I did it only once but I wasn't travelling.
The first thing that come in mind is the problem with the cold (eventually bring with you a blanket).
Anyway what are your concerns about sleeping in your blue car?

Good luck!

>>1123819
there's not much advice needed for sleeping in a car

just remember to lock your doors
also like the other guy said, bring a blanket

i slept once in my car, it was a bit tight and cramped, but it was ok

>>1124019
Well my concerns are how safe it is to sleep in my car and I also read somewhere to always keep a window slightly open to get some air in, I'm just a paranoid fucker who always thinks he'll get killed

>>1123706
>What are the Great Lakes like?
As the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth, they're pretty much what you'd expect -- large.
>How does it compare
How do they compare. You need to go with the plural of the verb here as there's more than one lake. The "s" in "Lakes" should have tipped you off.
>How does it compare to beaches
Beaches are generally composed of sand. The Great Lakes are generally composed of water. Water is a lot wetter than sand; sand is a lot grittier than water.

You're welcome.

>>1123706
They're full of girls from Illinois who will smile at you and invite you to go home and play with them until daddy gets home.

>>1123706
They're cold.
>>1123714
also this.

>>1123521
I am an artist and naturally work best in a bohemian environment. I do not know if the places I have in mind can offer that for me so if there is a city or town that may be better suitable for me and what I would like, please recommend it!

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tl;dr

>>1123521
>UAE
Really? Well I don't have any personal experience in the area, but I'd be lying if I said that your choice of the UAE did not come as a surprise to me, but maybe it is worth checking out and I've been to quick to dismiss it simply as "Vegas in a turban", is there more to UAE than just Dubai? Or is there more to Dubai than I've given them credit for?

I've never been to St. Petersburg, other than the one in Florida, but I can understand why you would be drawn to the city. It seems like Russia has produced so many great authors, part of the reason I want to learn the Russian language is so that I can enjoy their works as they wrote them.

>>1123217
>getting drunk
>banging bitches that wear too much makeup (they all wear too much)
>getting ragged on by the locals if your from America

I just came back from a 2 week holiday there. Nice people, Good alcohol and beers, laid back environment. I sugest you to get a dublin pass and leap card if you are staying in dublin. Dublin pass let you enter a lot of museums and attractions. Leap pass let you use buses, luas and the other trains which I dont recall their names. Lots of bus tours, I highly recommend the ghost tour in dublin. Good luck with your travel

You should expect paying over the odds on mediocre food, museums and accommodation

>>1122741
literally youre not going to actually do this, you're just another NEET with an overactive imagination. Don't waste our fucking time kid.

http://www.autism-society.org/get-involved/national-autism-awareness-month/

>>1122802

OP here, thanks for the reply!

This is what i need to hear; i don't mind the challenge amigo! I feel i will be fully capable of making this trip happen. Considering the fact i graduate collage next May; i have no reason not to attempt to see as many cities and sights and humanly possible during this trip. ill be 27 and experienced; having backpacked multiple continents prior to doing this trip. I consider myself in my prime.

I realized what I'm getting into, and I'm aware this trip is stacked. Ill have to do a lot of preparation and homework. This trip won't be easy to pull off. The more i think about it...the more i love it, so bring it the fuck on!

So do me a favor and shoot me some proper advice rather than proper pessimism!

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>>1121746
Like rest of South East Asia, but less fun, less interesting, and less friendly to travelers. Stay out stupid redneck!

>>1121746
I've been many times. The stock answer to this, which I got from friends in Northeastern Thailand, is that it's like Northeastern Thailand was 30 years ago.

This isn't all that accurate, but Laos is like a much smaller, much poorer, quasi-Communist (the government is revolutionary in origin, and authoritarian in practice, but there is little effective socialism in place, limited propaganda or iconography, and market liberalization has been an increasing fact of life since I started visiting 20+ years ago), French- and Vietnamese-influenced Thailand in many respects. It's a bit more ethnically diverse (the lowland Lao, who are very similar to the Thai culturally and linguistically, are only about 60% of the total population, with the rest made up of various "tribal" and minority groups), and a bit more conservative in many ways, but it's more like Thailand than it is like any other country.

An important difference is that it doesn't cater to hedonists the way Thailand does--although there now nightclubs and a suprising number of streetwalkers in Vientiane (a town that resembles a cross between Khon Kaen and Chiang Mai), sex tourism is very publicly forbidden and even more popularly frowned upon, and there are no visible official venues for it (like go-go bars or massage parlors). And although the country has opened its doors in the last fifteen years or so to hippy backpacker scumbags who fueled a drug-laden, boozy party area around Vang Vieng that gets shut down every few years, it's actually really drug-unfriendly and conservative in terms of dress and deportment traditions. Vang Vieng remains a national embarrassment. Yes, that smiling old lady will sell you and your dreadlocks and sarong a beer at breakfast, but while she does so she will talk to her friend in Lao about how awful you are and how little you respect Lao culture. Visitors have been foolish enough to think it was an "anything goes", "mellow" society, and it's really far from the truth.

>>1121768
this is so accurated,
also the food and drinks are a lot more expensive than Thailand,
they import most of things from Thailand and Vietnam.

is ashville walkable at all? im going there in august and i dont have a car will this be a problem?

>>1121677
You could go to the dark corner in SC it's not too far away and has moonshine
It also has some great mountain views

>>1121677
if your still around pic related is probably the most boring thing you can do there. i haven't been in probably 10 years. but to tour the biltmore is like being trapped on a rollercoaster. all the rooms look the same and you cant escape you kind of had to finish the route to get out. id just check it out from the outside.

the greenbriar hotel for years was a legend for those in hospitality industry for being a non chain that was known for its service standards being so high. and just innovative like having fireworks and gingerbread house competition etc. I know it got bought out so I suppose much of that has changed but its worth a look around or having a drink at the bar. particularly around holidays.

>>1121687
yes and no. the downtown is. but in general yes I would think it could be a problem if you are going for more than a couple days. but taxis or uber or whatever will be there.

>>1120803

Yeah - theres this nice little spot past Constitution Ave and Dundas. It's called "The Dirt Nap" and its situated in a drainage ditch just off to the right of the road. BYOBlankets.

Ugh, avoid anything cheap and downtown while in Portland. Your fellow guests are junkies, career hobos, vagrants, drug addict, black hustlers, druggie burnouts, thieves, bedbugs, roaches, etc. They're cleaning up downtown (praise Jesus), so it's hard to find anything decent without spending $$$

Instead, you could get a cheap room out in Beaverton or North Portland (a little sketchy) and just take the MAX into downtown.

Downtown sucks, Portland is better up in the inner SE and NE. Airbnb has a couple cuck sheds you can rent for like $30/night.

Also, we're full, don't move here

just go to airbnb like everyone else

If you're traveling short term I'd imagine pump n dumps to be the popular option.

That's what I did anyways.

My now gf i met because I'm living in the country for 1+ years. Companionship is better than being on the prowl constantly in that situation.

But 2 weeks? What are you really expecting?

>>1120692
>is romance and sex when travelling common or is it just a meme

Depends on the type of places you go to and when. When I went interrailing when I was 18 in July sex was at least reasonably common. I'm not quite as OTT as /trv/ who say that women are falling over themselves to sleep with you but I had sex a couple of times in 2 months and of course your classic chads were having it quite frequently. The route round I took was very easy, straight into city centres, not at all off the beaten path and in summer so there were lots of students about, so everything came together to attract people looking to get wasted.

Last year on the other hand I spent a couple of months in Vietnam in April and in that entire time I didn't see one hookup. One american dudebro tried really fucking hard to get with a German in Ninh Binh but she totally wasn't interested, and that was it. The types of hostels I stayed at were far more chill though, often out of town or in smaller picturesque places, since I was able to get there by motorbike, and the fact that it was April meant that there were far fewer younger people around. I also think that Vietnam in general attracts people looking to just get wasted far less, though I'm certainly aware of party hostels and cruises and things there.

>>1120692
If you're 6'2", Australian, muscular and a surfer, it's gonna be easy as pie. If you're not, you're gonna have to rely on luck and your wit. Hostels in Europe are full of the former type.

You can maximize your chances by staying in party hostels, of course, or by going to destinations where people implicitely go to party and have sex.

If you're at a random hostel in some city in Europe that is not known for being a party destination, few girls will be there to have sex with strangers.

There are also way less solo female travellers than solo male travellers, probably because the former are afraid of rape or assault, and so prefer to travel with their boyfriend or in larger groups.

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>>1120109
I'm from Switzerland, no idea what you're interested in or your budget so can't really give any advices beside:
Budget: Even with $100/day it's a hobo tier experience, yes switzerland is this expensive.
1. August is the national holiday so there's usually some cool shit going on.
13. August is Street Parade in Zurich, one big rave in the center of the city
>pic related

Else tell me what you like burger bro.

>Croatia
>This

https://youtu.be/y8gJaMOHgSQ

>>1120139
>>1120109
I like nature stuff like hiking also swimming. I like electronic music and drinking. Just walking around sight seeing and experiencing local culture. Trying some good food. You guys got castles? Forgot to mention I'll be bringing wife too.