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HadesFish
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posted August 20, 2015 04:19 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for HadesFish     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I took a huge step this summer which led me to have the blessing of ultimately up to this point in me travels of touching all continents but two.

Have you guys gotten the chance to getaway this summer? Have you gotten away... Ever?
If so, or heck, if ever, where have you been? Where would you like to go on your next destination?

Do you prefer to travel with with another ( s ), or solo?

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posted August 21, 2015 04:00 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for TensionEmpire     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I did it the first time this summer, went to Danmark to see how it is to be a homeless, too easy in that country, so it dose not count, I went up to Norway but stayed only 10 days there, did not see much there but there is a lot to see there..
But I was not prepared for it, in the end I was destruction crying for mommy xD

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posted August 21, 2015 04:08 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for TensionEmpire     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
There is like apex of capitalism, so crazy, I think it`s the only country in the world where the homeless have a "costume?", like they get clothes from the state, and where them proudly O.o
But now they have a crazy suicide rate of boys and man there, also becauuse of feminism I believe
Itīs the country of porn and feminism

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posted August 21, 2015 04:10 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for TensionEmpire     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I like to travel solo, but you are very alone, don`t have friends and never will have because you have to know someone at least for some month to start something up, or you trancend it and love everybody the same..
But with friend would be nice too, just never did it

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posted August 21, 2015 07:24 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for HadesFish     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by TensionEmpire:
There is like apex of capitalism, so crazy, I think it`s the only country in the world where the homeless have a "costume?", like they get clothes from the state, and where them proudly O.o
But now they have a crazy suicide rate of boys and man there, also becauuse of feminism I believe
Itīs the country of porn and feminism


Why did you decide to go there and can you please explain further?

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posted August 21, 2015 07:30 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for HadesFish     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by TensionEmpire:
I like to travel solo, but you are very alone, don`t have friends and never will have because you have to know someone at least for some month to start something up, or you trancend it and love everybody the same..
But with friend would be nice too, just never did it

To travel alone means you are alone, yes. On my solo travels ...I found that I was not looking for friends... If you are ok with a person and they are heading to the same destination or whatnot you both share that moment in time, and really that's it. It's a great way to understand that not everyone you meet is supposed to stay, also taking full use of the moment.

Where have you been?

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posted August 21, 2015 01:46 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for TensionEmpire     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
As I said it was my first time travelling with a bagpack, first time hitchhicking and so on... I was in Hamburg my the town I was born in, and Koppenhagen is not far away, I decided to go there because Scandinavia has beutifull Nature (not Danmark, but Sweden and Norway) my travelling plans where always more conected with the country side rather than the citylife. Koppenhagen also has Christiania this hippie town in middle of the city, I feld to go there also, smoke a joint or two see how it is, in the end I stayed 3 Month there...
But Christiania is ******** it`s corrupet, HellsAngels rule the drugbuyssniss and there are some dark storys that u get to hear there, they have this group ego there like, "I`m Christianit I`m cool just because of that." but they don`t do shiet there, only smoke, they have dug theyr own grave, they don`t have peace anymore there since years because of the masses of the tourist`s that go there.
A lot of crazy ppl around, ppl destroied by drugs, by sad life experiences and so on.. me myself got a lill crazy there.
I got a place to stay at a "pirat harbour", but a lot of ppl just want to "use" the backpacker`s that come around, the first guy I met in Koppenhagen had warnet me befor, that ppl there will help you and than make you feel like you own them smthg.. I think gay man had interest in me I think the guy who invidet me to stay in the harbour was gay and had second intentions.. But my senses are not develloped enough and I was under hash and alc also all days long, so no time too think right. After 1 Month I wanted to leave, the harbour was stressfull, Danes lke to scream and make problems where there are nons I dunno, but I twisted my fkn Ankel and was forced to stay, the next Month I stayed with a Girl that I feld in love with, but sche broke my hard, I don`t know why... Maybe bcause man hrted her and she wand to be like man and play the playa game, maybe it`s just me, but I till now have the feeling that she was not completly honest with me, I also kind of have the felling that I have grown 2 horns, if u get what I meen. Than I went eaven more crazy, I finished the travell by and island with cliffs, trying to do the shamanic "vision seecing think" in norway. My plan was to stay there 3 days without food, only drining wather, I came to this crazy thougt that if I jumped of a cliff I would become a man, because I would surpass the fear, luckylly I choosed a smaller cliff than the original one, but I had the worst night of my life after the jump, I got out of breath when I hit the water, I hit it in more a sitting position, My entire spine got stiffed, stupid as heell, but sometimes I need shock therapy I believe.


So yeah the impression of Danmark and Scandinavia is of the apex of Capitalism.
Like where ppl think they live grate and are happy but in reallity they are beeing used to for test, testing human behavior, testing mind control, contitioning and so on.. Dude last year I think a guy in Sweden became a Millionair only by playing video games and posting it on youtube..
The Danes think they are happy because they are up in the "happy list" of each year. They throw money away, literally.
They have everything.
The same guy who warned me about christiania also told me he figured out the perfect way for a danish women not to work for one day on her life and have money for everythink... Just go to school, go to university, ahve a child and so on..
I dunno man but there are more man that die fro suicide than from car accidents..
Itīs mad.

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posted August 21, 2015 01:50 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for TensionEmpire     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Only 5 Million ppl in the entire country , half of them in Koppenhagen, cameras everywhere, everythink so clean and nice, perfectly build on exact angles, everybody follows it blindly, I got cought by the police , stupidetly again triing to steel a beer, they said " Oh we didn`t check you in the system yet to see how much shiet you have been doing around...
I found 3 bikes while I was there, if u need a bike there just walk for some hours and you will find one, you can eaven steel one, like it`s bad but not that bad, because the Dane will look and say : " Oh my bike is gone, nice now I can by myself a new one!"

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posted August 22, 2015 09:42 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for TensionEmpire     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I dunno if it was this that you wanted to hear, but about my thoughts of the country, I`m bad in putting them in words..
I`m in such a depression right now, I found a bike yesterday, I think I`m getting it and heading south, escaping the winter that is coming

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posted August 22, 2015 09:47 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Isa     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Only 5 Million ppl in the entire country , half of them in Koppenhagen, cameras everywhere, everythink so clean and nice, perfectly build on exact angles, everybody follows it blindly, I got cought by the police , stupidetly again triing to steel a beer, they said " Oh we didn`t check you in the system yet to see how much shiet you have been doing around...
I found 3 bikes while I was there, if u need a bike there just walk for some hours and you will find one, you can eaven steel one, like it`s bad but not that bad, because the Dane will look and say : " Oh my bike is gone, nice now I can by myself a new one!"

LMAO. Let's NOT follow this advice.

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posted August 22, 2015 09:48 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for TensionEmpire     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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LMAO. Let's NOT follow this advice.

Yeah, do not steel a bike xD

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posted August 30, 2015 10:30 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for HadesFish     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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I dunno if it was this that you wanted to hear, but about my thoughts of the country, I`m bad in putting them in words..
I`m in such a depression right now, I found a bike yesterday, I think I`m getting it and heading south, escaping the winter that is coming

I hear ya', and.. I hope that your bike worked if you got it... For a test run - especially if you are headed South.

Winter is coming indeed. It's not a bad thing, though.

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posted August 30, 2015 10:59 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for PixieJane     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I haven't been able to get away much this summer (just within a couple of hundred miles which is "local" to me) but my favorite memories are traveling long distances. Must be my Sag stellium.

One of my most cherished memories is hitchhiking from Houston to California when I was 16, it was an amazing adventure.

As for traveling with others or alone, both have their pros and cons.

I've got a fund that I don't touch that's to fund my trip to many places in Europe one day, and possibly other parts of the world.

There was a time I considered getting a MLS (Mastery of Library Science) and due to the exorbitant fees in America (which I frankly think aren't worth it, unless you're buying connections at an Ivy League, but even then the money is for the connections, the education is just a bonus) I was planning on how to do it outside the US where the education is generally higher quality for less money (even for an American). I'd come up with an intricate plan for most of my schooling to do be done in Canada and Sweden and when I finally decided against getting a MLS I was mostly disappointed that I wouldn't get to travel to those places.

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posted August 30, 2015 11:57 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for HadesFish     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by PixieJane:
I haven't been able to get away much this summer (just within a couple of hundred miles which is "local" to me) but my favorite memories are traveling long distances. Must be my Sag stellium.

One of my most cherished memories is hitchhiking from Houston to California when I was 16, it was an amazing adventure.

As for traveling with others or alone, both have their pros and cons.

I've got a fund that I don't touch that's to fund my trip to many places in Europe one day, and possibly other parts of the world.

There was a time I considered getting a MLS (Mastery of Library Science) and due to the exorbitant fees in America (which I frankly think aren't worth it, unless you're buying connections at an Ivy League, but even then the money is for the connections, the education is just a bonus) I was planning on how to do it outside the US where the education is generally higher quality for less money (even for an American). I'd come up with an intricate plan for most of my schooling to do be done in Canada and Sweden and when I finally decided against getting a MLS I was mostly disappointed that I wouldn't get to travel to those places.


The hitchhike reminds me of the movie Wild. The fact that you were so young is even wilder.

Yes, pros and cons for both.

MLS sounds interesting. Possible to use your funds to fund in general? Sucks you couldn't / can't go where you want through that!

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posted August 31, 2015 02:08 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for PixieJane     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Possible to use your funds to fund in general?

I've got too many financial obligations at the moment and furthermore if I were to leave for a long journey I'd lose much of my livelihood so it will have to wait until I'm older (or a lot richer).

As for schooling I'd incorporate my confidence in my ability to score the grants I needed to help pay for it (which meant studying the grants and other forms of financial assistance in other countries) in addition to going somewhere where higher education is much more affordable (and even better). Luckily the ALA (American Library Association) recognizes the MLS from Canada so that was where I was going to finish up.

I still plan to visit these areas one day but I really enjoyed the idea of spending months in Uppsala (Sweden) rather than just a few days, and also getting to genuinely know people there which I won't be able to do as a simple tourist. (One of the requirements necessary for my going to school in Sweden also required me to achieve a certain level of mastery in Swedish which I'd actually begun before deciding against that plan, but learning the language of my ancestors would also help me to get to know them better.)

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posted August 31, 2015 02:18 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for 12muddy     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I like travel... well more like moving. I like moving to live in different places. Have done so quite a bit. Itchy feet syndrome.

I used to like doing that on my own. There's something very exciting about leaving one place and settling down somewhere else, where no one knows who I am. It feels almost like erasing the past.

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posted August 31, 2015 03:21 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for TensionEmpire     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I was thinking of "giving up" and returning to the safety of my hometown.
But opened here this morning and took you advice in consideration HadesFish
And I tell you I only get this overhelming feeling of exitement when I think about travelling, nowhere else..

@PixieJane, so you got some viking blood, rough girl
Schwedish ain`t easy to learn right? I have heard more Danish and Norwedgian, Norwedgian is for sure more beautifull.

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posted August 31, 2015 04:04 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for PixieJane     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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@PixieJane, so you got some viking blood, ruth girl
Schwedish ain`t easy to learn right? I have heard more Danish and Norwedgian, Norwedgian is for sure more beautifull.

Yeah, you can say I have Viking blood when my Swedish ancestors who settled Texas in the late 19th century (don't know anything of why they came to Texas in the first place but I bet there were warrants for their arrest in Europe and America both) included cattle rustlers and even bank robbers and remained so until after the Great Depression. They were bad enough that the Lutheran Church kicked my entire family out as incorrigible in I think the 1920s or 30s. (After the Great Depression they worked hard to change their public image and are very different today, and joined the Southern Baptists in part because it gave them the best business connections but also because the Southern Baptists just love to shout hellfire & brimstone sermons at sinners anyway and my family definitely qualified. )

I found Swedish far easier to learn (not that I learned that much) than my attempts to learn Russian and Finnish (though funny story about the Russian, I got really plastered and the Russian Americans I was getting drunk with not only said my Russian improved by a lot but that I lost my atrocious accent, apparently due to my slurred speech! ). Even with some hard work I didn't get too far in either Finnish or Russian (though strangely I was able to read the Cyrillic alphabet better than a Russian American raised in America who could speak Russian a lot better than me but she thought the letters were of the Greek language yet I had an actual Russian look at it and confirm it said what I thought it did and then told me what the words meant which made sense) but I was picking up the Swedish fast without even trying that hard.

I felt Swedish made a lot more sense as their writing style tends more to run-on sentences like I'm inclined to do myself. I also liked that they had specific words for say paternal and maternal grandparents which I'd always wanted to have in English since it was sometimes confusing to talk about the different sides of the family with others. When I talk of Granny on LL I almost always mean what would be Mormor in Swedish (maternal grandmother) but among my friends and relatives I also had to talk about my paternal grandmother which in Swedish would be Farmor which would've made communication easier. And I could see the logic right away, "Mormor" is essentially "Mother's Mother" while "Farmore" is essentially "Father's Mother" (Far, or "father," and "more" for "mother"). And Moster means "mother's sister" and my mother's ("mo") sister ("ster") was very unpleasant to me so it was easy to remember as it sounds close to "monster."

Many of the words sound similar to English as well so I just picked it up fast and was able to get hold of a Pippi Longstocking video in Swedish (a favorite character of mine as a little girl) and between my familiarity with Pippi and my learning Swedish through an audio cassette course I found I understand a lot of it (at least enough to follow it).

I was told that I was better off learning German as I'd have more use for it outside of Sweden and that German and Swedish have very different grammar rules which meant if I learned enough Swedish to fulfill the requirements then I'd find it much harder to learn to speak German later, and I already found German more difficult to learn. (That said I heard if I learned Swedish then I'd be able to understand some Dutch and Norwegian, at least better than if I were to learn German instead.)

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posted August 31, 2015 04:18 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for TensionEmpire     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I don`t know much about Russian and Finish, but Schwedish is probably easier haha
I think you will understand almost everythink of Danish and Norwedgian if you know Schwedish.
The words I believe are pretty much the same..
So I compare Danish a bit with Schwedish and what I thought was difficult in Danish was the pronunciation and the difference in writing to speaking, like a word with 7 letters you would only pronounce 4 of them.
But I guess you`re learning it for some time now.
And I know German, but you don`t understand nothing of the Skandinavian language with it, at least not me, You can get the similarity of the words when you read it, but hearing is totally different.

And you got a nice family story

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posted August 31, 2015 04:19 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for TensionEmpire     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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I took a huge step this summer which led me to have the blessing of ultimately up to this point in me travels of touching all continents but two.


Hmm, let me guess, Australia and Africa?

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posted August 31, 2015 10:38 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for HadesFish     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by 12muddy:
I like travel... well more like moving. I like moving to live in different places. Have done so quite a bit. Itchy feet syndrome.

I used to like doing that on my own. There's something very exciting about leaving one place and settling down somewhere else, where no one knows who I am. It feels almost like erasing the past.


Well said. The constant moving rings true for me, but in more of a restless way. I like being at home, but if the opportunity comes to spend time elsewhere, even just for a day / night... I'm on it! I've also house sat this summer and enjoyed it!
When you mentioned starting all over... Has that happened to you as of yet?

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posted August 31, 2015 10:40 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for HadesFish     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Yeah, you can say I have Viking blood when my Swedish ancestors who settled Texas in the late 19th century (don't know anything of why they came to Texas in the first place but I bet there were warrants for their arrest in Europe and America both) included cattle rustlers and even bank robbers and remained so until after the Great Depression. They were bad enough that the Lutheran Church kicked my entire family out as incorrigible in I think the 1920s or 30s. (After the Great Depression they worked hard to change their public image and are very different today, and joined the Southern Baptists in part because it gave them the best business connections but also because the Southern Baptists just love to shout hellfire & brimstone sermons at sinners anyway and my family definitely qualified. )

I found Swedish far easier to learn (not that I learned that much) than my attempts to learn Russian and Finnish (though funny story about the Russian, I got really plastered and the Russian Americans I was getting drunk with not only said my Russian improved by a lot but that I lost my atrocious accent, apparently due to my slurred speech! ). Even with some hard work I didn't get too far in either Finnish or Russian (though strangely I was able to read the Cyrillic alphabet better than a Russian American raised in America who could speak Russian a lot better than me but she thought the letters were of the Greek language yet I had an actual Russian look at it and confirm it said what I thought it did and then told me what the words meant which made sense) but I was picking up the Swedish fast without even trying that hard.

I felt Swedish made a lot more sense as their writing style tends more to run-on sentences like I'm inclined to do myself. I also liked that they had specific words for say paternal and maternal grandparents which I'd always wanted to have in English since it was sometimes confusing to talk about the different sides of the family with others. When I talk of Granny on LL I almost always mean what would be Mormor in Swedish (maternal grandmother) but among my friends and relatives I also had to talk about my paternal grandmother which in Swedish would be Farmor which would've made communication easier. And I could see the logic right away, "Mormor" is essentially "Mother's Mother" while "Farmore" is essentially "Father's Mother" (Far, or "father," and "more" for "mother"). And Moster means "mother's sister" and my mother's ("mo") sister ("ster") was very unpleasant to me so it was easy to remember as it sounds close to "monster."

Many of the words sound similar to English as well so I just picked it up fast and was able to get hold of a Pippi Longstocking video in Swedish (a favorite character of mine as a little girl) and between my familiarity with Pippi and my learning Swedish through an audio cassette course I found I understand a lot of it (at least enough to follow it).

I was told that I was better off learning German as I'd have more use for it outside of Sweden and that German and Swedish have very different grammar rules which meant if I learned enough Swedish to fulfill the requirements then I'd find it much harder to learn to speak German later, and I already found German more difficult to learn. (That said I heard if I learned Swedish then I'd be able to understand some Dutch and Norwegian, at least better than if I were to learn German instead.)


Agreed with above... Quite the background history!
My father has learned through cassettes as well, and it worked for him. How did you feel about learning in that style? Personally for me, it just doesn't work.

My signature quote on here is actually a Russian one.

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posted August 31, 2015 10:42 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for HadesFish     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Hmm, let me guess, Australia and Africa?


Haha! Didn't seem like a guess... At all!

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posted August 31, 2015 12:58 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for TensionEmpire     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Haha! Didn't seem like a guess... At all!


, maybe no much effort, maybe no good in guessing

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posted August 31, 2015 01:06 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for HadesFish     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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, maybe no much effort, maybe no good in guessing



Only good at steeling bikes? .

Australia has always seemed out of the way for where I was at, but it looks beautiful and the people travel a lot also from there and I've found them to be quite nice. I've also been mistaken for an Australian in parts where because of how I look thats all they had to compare.

Africa is large and I would like to go, but I would have to find a specific idea I would like to do there, such as surfing.

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