MY STORIES
Sometimes, the most important life lessons come from making mistakes–trust me on this one. We take big leaps of faith and think they’ll all go our way, think we’ll land in exactly the right place. Life isn’t always so simple, though, and as far as traveling goes… I’ve been through a lot. I’d like to think I’ve been through it all, but every time I start to think I’m set, that I know all there is to know, I find myself thrown into yet another mess. Maybe these chaotic, unpredictable, messy, ridiculous, and entertaining stories will shed some light on your travels. Maybe you can learn from my mistakes before they become yours. Or, at the very least, maybe you will just enjoy hearing about them and laughing along with me (…at me).
Now you’re on hold with the help and customer support line. Since this airline is always at the top of their game, connecting the call with an actual person takes mere minutes, not hours (I beg you to hear my sarcasm), and once on this phone call, you learn that your reservation does not exist because you have been scammed by the unreliable third party app through which you booked your flight to save a whopping… ten bucks!
I could probably write a novel (or at least a little novella) on all of the things I do that make it painfully obvious how white I am, and this one is up there. It didn’t even cross my mind that skydiving might also fall into that category until my friend Alaina said, “that is some white people shit,” at which point my eyes really opened to the sheer stupidity of the thing.
Spring break... the best of times, and the worst of times.
If the first day—and in this instance, “day” is sort of a blurred concept. First twenty-four hours, perhaps—of this trip was going to be all that my time in Costa Rica amounts to, I, without a doubt, would not have come.