Your Greatest Travel Moment

Walking the freedom trail in Boston last year was one of my favorite travel moments that comes to mind. You could just feel the history at every landmark. It was a freezing cold but beautiful day in December last year.

Watching the sun rise at the Grand Canyon. Purely majestic.

I have two

The first was just after entering the Plaza del Toros with a bull on my arse. Taking a step back from the chaos and realizing how great the last 4 weeks of traveling had been and ending it in Pamplona, Spain for the running of the bulls. A surprisingly emotional moment.

The second was attending the sposi novelli at the Vatican on our honeymoon. My wife and I got married in our local church and the priest told us about this when he found out we were doing part of our honeymoon in Rome. I honestly wasn't expecting much and didn't do a lot of research. Next thing you know we are seated on the stage with the Pope with about 50 other newly weds. After mass Pope Francis blessed each couple individually and when he got to us my wife offered him a new hat, he laughed, took his off and traded hats, it sits in a glass case in our home. I'm not very religious but the moment was bigger than I imagined.

Sitting by myself in Minnewaterpark in Bruges, Belgium just minding my business and reading a book. I had been there about 30-45 minutes when a mom with two young boys arrived. The older of the boys was around 4 or 5 and was learning English and was excited to practice with an American. Sat there for 20-30 minutes helping him with his English, which was hard because I barely knew any Dutch(I think that was his primary language.) The mom spoke perfect English, like most people I encountered in Belgium did.

Kinda lame I guess, but it's an encounter that has stuck with me for 20+ years now.

I was in London for a few days and I took the water taxi down to Greenwich one morning to see the observatory and the naval museum.

On the boat ride back I noticed there was a ton of traffic and a lot of the boats had signs and things on them.

I got off on the west side of the river and started walking up towards the bridge back over to by Parliament.
It was a circus. I had inadvertently rode up the river with and then hung out and watched all of this:

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(Washington Post article)

It was awesome.

I'd have to say Zimbabwe for me as a whole... that was the best trip.

As roosters crow here at sunrise there, the lions start roaring and that's a hell of an alarm clock to start the day...

seeing the stars at night... with hardly any electricity around for miles and miles let me see the sky as it was intended.. and man... that was divine....

Watching an african sunset is something I plan to do one more time in my life.

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Walking the freedom trail in Boston last year was one of my favorite travel moments that comes to mind. You could just feel the history at every landmark. It was a freezing cold but beautiful day in December last year.

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Not to mention you met some pretty cool people on that trip, if I recall correctly.

The first time I was in Copenhagen in about 2003 or so. Walking around town, any green patch of grass would be adorned by a topless danish woman sunning herself. At one point I was looking at the map trying to figure our route and could see a street sign about 100' away but couldn't make out the street name. I told my gf (now wife) I was going to walk down there so I could read it. There was also a low brick wall before I got to the sign and as I passed the brick wall there were 6 pair of lovely danish breasts laying there. I looked at the sign, walked back to where my gf was standing. She asked me the name of the street and I replied...."I have no idea...I forgot". So I had to walk back over there to get a better look.....at the street sign.

Alas, the next time I went back to Copenhagen about 3-4 years later, social media had taken off and girls were no longer laying out topless everywhere since perverts like me were taking and posting pics of them. That's when I knew Facebook was a detriment to society.

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Damn right. You and Jarvis Green. Gonna try to get in on the Boston Marathon someday. That's my bucket list race.

2006 watching Italy beat France in the world cup final in the stadium in Berlin. That whole month and a half in Germany was fantastic, but being in that stadium for that moment was incredible.