re: What things in your life that you've done that probably not many others have done?

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What things in your life that you've done that probably not many others have done?

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1) Walked to my hotel from a restaurant in a sandstorm in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Couldn't see 15 feet in front of me.

2) Heard and felt landmines being detonated in Sarajevo, Bosnia following the almost four-year siege of the city by the Serbs.

3) Was awakened by an earthquake in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

4) Worked in all 11 time zones in Russia.

5) Needed 4,000 miles to reach Delta Airlines' Platinum Medallion status one December so I flew from Baton Rouge to Europe and back to Baton Rouge in 22 hours (Baton Rouge-Atlanta-Paris-Amsterdam-Chicago-Atlanta-Baton Rouge). (Got detained in Amsterdam by Dutch airport security because I didn't have any checked luggage even though I was on an international flight from the USA. I learned the Dutch have no sense of humor.) There was a glitch in the Delta online booking system which priced that itinerary at $293 total round trip. By reaching Platinum Medallion I secured 8 one-way upgrades from international coach class to first or business class. Each free one-way upgrade saved me $2,000.

6) Watched a Russian military-looking guy beat the shite out of two thugs with knives on the Moscow Metro (subway) who were trying to rob him. Broken bones occurred.

7) Had a disposable camera confiscated by ChiCom internal security agents in 2004 because I took some photos of SOMETHING they didn't want me to take. I was in Dalian, China, a port city on the Chinese east coast, and I think they didn't like me taking photos of the ships in the port, including a couple of Chinese Navy ships.

8) Was advised to close my hotel window in my ground floor room in Blantyre, Malawi (Africa) because cobras could climb the bricks outside and enter the room. I closed the window.

9) Stood in the prison cell in St. Petersburg, Russia where Russian Tsar Peter the Great had his son tortured and executed for treason.