Comments on: Trusting people on the road http://www.vagablogging.net/trusting-people-on-the-road.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:14:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Shannon http://www.vagablogging.net/trusting-people-on-the-road.html/comment-page-1#comment-1694 Shannon Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:25:37 +0000 http://qs1937.pair.com/users/bootlabs/vagablogging.net/_wp/trusting-people-on-the-road.html#comment-1694 I agree with the instinct rule. If it feels wrong, it is wrong. I'm travel frequently alone and I've only had one kinda scary moment where this man in first class wanted a little something-something. I told him I was married and he said,"And?" What a creep. I agree with the instinct rule. If it feels wrong, it is wrong.

I’m travel frequently alone and I’ve only had one kinda scary moment where this man in first class wanted a little something-something. I told him I was married and he said,”And?”

What a creep.

]]> By: Joel http://www.vagablogging.net/trusting-people-on-the-road.html/comment-page-1#comment-1693 Joel Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:01:40 +0000 http://qs1937.pair.com/users/bootlabs/vagablogging.net/_wp/trusting-people-on-the-road.html#comment-1693 I feel like I have pretty good street smarts -- i.e., a pretty good gut -- and there are times when you know "to trust" would be a risky thing. But even if you're Indiana Jones there canbe situations where the cultural and experiential gap is so wide that your gut doesn't work so well. It's like trying to use a compass that doesn't actually know where true North is. Still, to err on the side of trust is, for me, preferable (which sadly is a bit easier for a guy to do than a girl). While it has of course led to some unsavory experiences -- such as (like Rolf) being drugged and mugged in Istanbul -- I suspect that traveling without trusting would be to only half-travel. Travel well, whatever that might mean! I feel like I have pretty good street smarts — i.e., a pretty good gut — and there are times when you know “to trust” would be a risky thing. But even if you’re Indiana Jones there canbe situations where the cultural and experiential gap is so wide that your gut doesn’t work so well. It’s like trying to use a compass that doesn’t actually know where true North is. Still, to err on the side of trust is, for me, preferable (which sadly is a bit easier for a guy to do than a girl). While it has of course led to some unsavory experiences — such as (like Rolf) being drugged and mugged in Istanbul — I suspect that traveling without trusting would be to only half-travel.

Travel well, whatever that might mean!

]]> By: Jim http://www.vagablogging.net/trusting-people-on-the-road.html/comment-page-1#comment-1692 Jim Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:24:12 +0000 http://qs1937.pair.com/users/bootlabs/vagablogging.net/_wp/trusting-people-on-the-road.html#comment-1692 I think we generally know. How many times have you heard someone say after something bad "I just knew it, I just had a feeling" but yet they did it. Follow your gut feelings and usually you will be fine. IMHO I think we generally know. How many times have you heard someone say after something bad “I just knew it, I just had a feeling” but yet they did it. Follow your gut feelings and usually you will be fine. IMHO

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