Comments on: Failing at Spontaneity http://laurenlavoie.com/travel/220 A blog Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:02:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: One Day You’ll Find that I Have Gone at laurenlavoie.com http://laurenlavoie.com/travel/220#comment-28248 One Day You’ll Find that I Have Gone at laurenlavoie.com Sun, 09 Dec 2007 05:12:18 +0000 http://laurenlavoie.com/travel/220#comment-28248 [...] in May, I wrote that Kenny and I had intended to keep our itinerary for our Guatemala/Belize trip somewhat flexible [...] [...] in May, I wrote that Kenny and I had intended to keep our itinerary for our Guatemala/Belize trip somewhat flexible [...]

]]> By: katie http://laurenlavoie.com/travel/220#comment-4337 katie Sun, 06 May 2007 03:25:23 +0000 http://laurenlavoie.com/travel/220#comment-4337 Last year in Israel, two of my Polish friends decided that they were going to teach me how to be spontaneous. I never really succeeded, though they kept springing things on me so I learned to be more easy going. Really, I have found that the only way for me to be spontaneous is to be apathetic. If I am apathetic then I don't plan anything which of course just ends up proving Newtonian physics. I don't think that I could be terribly spontaneous, though, about international travel; it would make me too nervous. In fact, having the hotels planned will probably make spontaneity easier in terms of sight-seeing because you won't have to spend time each day figuring out where you'll be sleeping. Now I will cease my spontaneous checking of blogs and go back to writing entries in an annotated bibliography on Orthodox Judaism in Germany in the nineteenth century. Last year in Israel, two of my Polish friends decided that they were going to teach me how to be spontaneous. I never really succeeded, though they kept springing things on me so I learned to be more easy going. Really, I have found that the only way for me to be spontaneous is to be apathetic. If I am apathetic then I don’t plan anything which of course just ends up proving Newtonian physics. I don’t think that I could be terribly spontaneous, though, about international travel; it would make me too nervous. In fact, having the hotels planned will probably make spontaneity easier in terms of sight-seeing because you won’t have to spend time each day figuring out where you’ll be sleeping. Now I will cease my spontaneous checking of blogs and go back to writing entries in an annotated bibliography on Orthodox Judaism in Germany in the nineteenth century.

]]> By: Sam http://laurenlavoie.com/travel/220#comment-4189 Sam Fri, 04 May 2007 09:19:26 +0000 http://laurenlavoie.com/travel/220#comment-4189 He, I've been to Guatemala five years ago, we just went whereever we felt like, never have booked a room in advance. We always been lucky, when we fell sick on the bus to Flores (I ate all kinds of stuff from the street markets and never had a problem, but eating one bite of the sandwich coming with the expensive luxus bus ride killed me for five days) we found the nicest place to stay in Flores, we had no trouble at all to get a room anywhere, even at Tikal we found one immediately. Speaking of which, viewing the sunSET from pyramid No. IV (or was it V? Or VII? Dammit, got a memory leak here) would probably the most memorable thing for any vacation. Not because the sunset is stunning, but because first the climb up the steep stairs is an adventure (I stopped halfway), but because after you watched the sun set it will be pitch dark in a matter of mere minutes, you'll have to climb (fall?) down a pyramid in darkness *and* walk back through the jungle to your hotel. When I was there I've been lucky. We watched the sun set from down below, found ourself in darkness right in the middle of the jungle, but been lucky, a park ranger took us with his jeep back to our hotel. I wonder what became of all those who'd been watching the sundown from up there ;) Oh, and if you hear anything growling like a big man eating cat in the night there, it probably will be the apes who have a lot of fun scaring lost visitors this way ;*) Ah yes, Tikal, what a nice area. Fancy birds, lovely spiders in holes in the ground, scorpions at the bedroom window. I'd visit it again if it where not that far away from europe. Have fun on your trip! He, I’ve been to Guatemala five years ago, we just went whereever we felt like, never have booked a room in advance.

We always been lucky, when we fell sick on the bus to Flores (I ate all kinds of stuff from the street markets and never had a problem, but eating one bite of the sandwich coming with the expensive luxus bus ride killed me for five days) we found the nicest place to stay in Flores, we had no trouble at all to get a room anywhere, even at Tikal we found one immediately.

Speaking of which, viewing the sunSET from pyramid No. IV (or was it V? Or VII? Dammit, got a memory leak here) would probably the most memorable thing for any vacation.
Not because the sunset is stunning, but because first the climb up the steep stairs is an adventure (I stopped halfway), but because after you watched the sun set it will be pitch dark in a matter of mere minutes, you’ll have to climb (fall?) down a pyramid in darkness *and* walk back through the jungle to your hotel.

When I was there I’ve been lucky. We watched the sun set from down below, found ourself in darkness right in the middle of the jungle, but been lucky, a park ranger took us with his jeep back to our hotel. I wonder what became of all those who’d been watching the sundown from up there ;)

Oh, and if you hear anything growling like a big man eating cat in the night there, it probably will be the apes who have a lot of fun scaring lost visitors this way ;*)

Ah yes, Tikal, what a nice area. Fancy birds, lovely spiders in holes in the ground, scorpions at the bedroom window. I’d visit it again if it where not that far away from europe.

Have fun on your trip!

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