Any hilarious gap year/backpacking stories?

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Ah yes, soon I will be enjoying the wonders of Egypt (well, from january to march anyway) on my gap year, and am slightly shitting myself to be honest, what with the fact that I'm bound to come a cropper somewhere, quite possibly involving a horrible diease of some sort. Anyone have any hilarious travelling stories to take all my fears away (or just plain add to them)?

― Bill, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my ex-flatmate backpacked round australia and met Harold Bishop leching onto young girls.

― gareth, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, my friend Stephanie was in some cheesy club in Australia and went on some gyroscope game where they strap you in and spin you round very quickly. She was in some discomfort and eventually managed to make them stop it. When she got off her friend noticed that all the blood vessels in her eyes had burst so she went from being v. pretty girl to v. terrifying monster woman who scared a small child in McDonalds. Also the doctor told her she must never scuba dive or bungee jump owing to her weakened eye capillaries. The club gave her a t-shirt and baseball cap by way of apology. She is now a doctor.

― Emma, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A friend of a friend just died backpacking round India. My friend was very upset.

― Pete, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was in Prague just recently and a tramp came up to us on the street and gave us a bit of paper with something written on it, he was vigorously smiling and laughing and gesturing at it in an insane manner. We didn't know what he was up to at all and eventually he left. So we met some Czech girls and showed them the paper and found it to mean the following "I am full of delicious ketchup/relish". Yes I did think they were winding us up so we double checked. Full of delicious ketchup it was. Also there were furry handcuffs locked to my bed in the hotel.

― Ronan Fitzgerald, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ronan Fitzgerald has met Hanle y!!

― mark s, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I appreciate my role (albeit an unwitting one) in that private joke.

― Ronan Fitzgerald, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's not really very private. Mike Hanle y = ILE funnyman who says things like "I am full of delicious ketchup/relish!"

― Nick, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Now I am truly afflicted with terminal euphoric laughter

― Ronan Fitzgerald, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have had enough of nothing!

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You sure you didnt mean "I have nothing to say to the nothing that has been said."

― zacko, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

twelve years pass...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/colombia/10792424/Student-Henry-Miller-filmed-at-jungle-yage-rite-before-he-dies.html

― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Monday, 5 May 2014 23:39 (twelve years ago)

that one guy who quit

― imago, Monday, 5 May 2014 23:40 (twelve years ago)

ikr

― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Monday, 5 May 2014 23:41 (twelve years ago)

chap who dandied around paris having sex and writing about it
ilx brit zingcrew stalwart
gap year martyr

^viable poll options

― imago, Monday, 5 May 2014 23:43 (twelve years ago)

戦闘竜扁利
Sentoryū Henri
Personal information
Born Henry Armstrong Miller
July 16, 1969 (age 44)
Tokyo, Japan
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 136 kg (300 lb)

― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Monday, 5 May 2014 23:46 (twelve years ago)

there's a "gap yah" youtube. it's not that funny

― goole, Monday, 5 May 2014 23:47 (twelve years ago)

list of worst places in the world would correlate quite highly with common destinations for british gap year kids

― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Monday, 5 May 2014 23:55 (twelve years ago)

I feel like this should be a thing for people, kind of like universal health insurance and government mandated vacations like in France or whatever mythical land people use as an example where you're from.

I went from high school to feeling like a shit for lack of a job to college, from which point I've been in school or employed for all but three weeks one college summer. I've never been away from work for more than a full work week since then, iirc

Not that a gap year is reality, but I feel like I'd have some sort of footing if I'd learned on one.

― a strange man (mh), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 03:27 (twelve years ago)

If I died like Henry then maybe it'd be ok, I'd have been on gap year

― a strange man (mh), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 03:29 (twelve years ago)

In this job market, any parents that let their kids do this should be arrested

― grindie cindy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 03:52 (twelve years ago)

In America, obv

― grindie cindy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 03:52 (twelve years ago)

get your jobs while they last, kids

― brimstead, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 04:01 (twelve years ago)

three months pass...

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/06/article-2717958-2050222C00000578-389_308x456.jpg

― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 23:04 (eleven years ago)

― boney tassel (sic), Thursday, 7 August 2014 00:06 (eleven years ago)

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