Welcome to the Sunshine Travelers podcast. Today, we're sharing a side of travel that doesn't always make the highlight reel, the untold stories. These are the funny, unexpected, and sometimes not so glamorous moments that happen when you're out exploring the world. From travel mishaps and embarrassing encounters to the kind of stories that make us laugh now, but maybe not so much in the moment when they happen, we're pulling back the curtain on the real side of travel. So sit back, relax, and get ready for a lighthearted episode filled with adventures, laughs, and a reminder that sometimes the best stories are the ones that you didn't plan for.
I'm Scott. And I'm Melissa.
Melissa.
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Today's episode is a little bit different. It's going to be a lot of fun, I hope. Melissa and I realize that there are so many stories from our travels that we have never shared with you before. And these are the moments that didn't always make the podcast. And sometimes we even said, oh, maybe we should leave those stories out. And they're the ones that we kind of laugh about now or maybe even cringe a little bit when we talk about them. And this is what really happens when things don't go as planned.
Yeah, so our title in this episode, Travel Stories We've Never Told. But we may end up telling something that we may have alluded to, right? It's like when somebody's telling you a story and they're like, you've already told me this story before. But that's OK. We hopefully will put a different spin on it. But I know a few of these 100 percent that we haven't shared that we just wanted to have a little fun today and share them with you.
Yeah. Well, let's start out with one of our most recent stories. And you've heard us talk about the safari and how much we loved our experience on the safari. We it's one of the best things that we've ever done. But getting into Kenya was a little bit rocky and we never told that story.
Yeah. So when we were leaving Egypt, so we did take a lot of, you know, we had a lot of camera equipment, no drone. So by the way, no drones and, you know, no Egypt. I don't think you could take them in Kenya either. So we knew going into this, like there was no drones and they were very picky. I don't think going into Egypt, they didn't even stop us, right? But coming out, then they were very picky about what's in this box. And we had to like, remember that he said, point to this or his point to this and tell me what these things are. And I was over there and I was like, oh, my gosh, this is all Scott stuff. I don't know what all this stuff is. So fine. No problem. Fine. We got through that. We get to Kenya. We get through customs. We even have a guy like that was part of the experience that we had with McKay. The guy met us at the airport, you know, after we came through immigration, help us with our bag. which is not something that we're used to. So like all this is great until we get to the customs.
get to the customs. And so they pull the camera case. And obviously I'm thinking, well,
before you say that, let's explain. This was a little different. You know, a lot of times when you go through customs, they have like a conveyor belt where I guess sometimes, and we may have run into this sometimes, sometimes you run the stuff across and sometimes you don't. So this was after you collect your bag. And so then everything was going across that conveyor. Carry -ons, which is what your camera equipment was. You did not check that. You know, carry -ons, everything was going through this conveyor. Okay, now keep going.
Yeah, and I think that's pretty common in other areas of the world. But, you know, we run it through the conveyor. And I am certain, you know, because he pulls out the camera case. I've got all my camera equipment in a Pelican case. And if you don't know what that is, it's a... hard -sided case and it's got little slots in there for all of your equipment to keep it safe while traveling. And so he pulls it out and I'm like, okay, yeah, that's my camera equipment. And I'm thinking I'm just going to do the same thing. He's going to point and ask me what certain things are and I'll tell him, you know, what it is. Well, I do that. And all of a sudden he's like, oh no, you can't, you can't bring this into the country. I've got to pay. some kind of fee to bring this equipment in. And I was just like, you got to be kidding me. Every second person going through here has probably got a lens that's worth more than the value of all of my camera equipment put together. And they're going to stop me on just my little bag of camera equipment here. And so they were serious. They were not going to let us in with that camera equipment. And so we did have to get on the phone with McKay. And of course, they sprung into action right away. And they were, you know, they were telling them, look, we're going to come down there. But if we have to come down there, there's going to be a problem. And so you need to figure this out before we get down there. And so we stood around. We talked to a few guys. I was kind of fuming about the fact that they had pulled this aside. And one thing that I learned is. You know, never tell them the actual value of anything. Always lowball the value. But, you know, what he was saying is I needed some kind of bond, saying that I was going to take this camera equipment in, use it for my personal use, and then making sure that I brought it back out or else I was going to have to pay taxes on it.
We were, like you said, we were talking to our little handle guy, Thomas. I kind of befriended this other. This other man who had a lot of questions about the U .S., his daughter was had moved to the U .S. and she was like working so that she could then study. And so we kind of like struck up a conversation. And I think in the end, he was the one who kind of smoothed it over with the with the other guy who, you know, I don't know. Did he just want to be like the in charge guy of the day to say this was this? Did he want money? Did he want? We don't know. But they told.
told. Thomas, right? That was his name. Or Thomas Overheard or something like that. He was like, I think they just want you to pay some money. And I think he told that to the people from McKay. And they're like, no, we're not going to do that. The economy here is so heavily dependent upon this tourism and the tourism for safaris specifically that they just can't treat our guests like this.
And like you said, it's, you know, it wasn't like here's a consistent process. Here's a consistent because what we had was nowhere near the value of what other people had. So, you know,
know, that's just one of those stories where it was our first experience in country. And, you know, you're already getting a little bit of a shakedown at the airport. But, you know, sometimes that does happen. And we've had that in Mexico.
We did tell that story.
Yeah. You know, we've had the. shakedown by the police in Mexico. And we've told that story before. And you just kind of have to be, you know, calm about it, stay level -headed, and then work your way through these situations. Take a deep breath. And it probably did set us,
a deep breath. And it probably did set us, I mean, not set us back. It's not like we had anywhere to be, but that was an overnight flight. We were kind of tired and wanting to get in and get settled and all that kind of stuff. So just, you know, trying to keep a level head. Now, the benefit or the outcome of this is, even though it wasn't McKay's fault, I think that they were very gracious and apologetic and a little upset that this had happened to us. And so at the end, we got and got treated with a very nice little private flight to kind of say, hey, we value you and we're sorry that this happened. And they were able to work that out for us. So that was... So a little silver lining, I guess. And that was all thanks to Mark, who took very good care of us. And you'll be hearing from Mark very soon on the podcast. Well,
the next thing on our list is when we rented the car in Crete. So if you listened to last week's episode, we talked about the van in Crete. I told the story about having to go with the guy to get the van. And, you know, he's like, only one person can go. And we didn't know what we were getting into, but that part worked out. What we haven't talked about is actually trying to maneuver that van in the cities there in Heracleion and Hania. We're talking about a, it was a minivan. It was a smaller minivan, but it was still a minivan -sized vehicle. And the streets are barely made for a compact -sized vehicle to travel through.
Yeah. And people would park and they were not one way streets. People would park on both sides. Then cars were trying to go in both directions. And then you would try to go into some kind of parking lot. Like that was just like a maze of another dimension up a hill with people parking all over the place. Well,
the place that we stayed in Hania. We had this brand new van. We talked about that maybe 20 miles on it when we picked it up. And so the place that we stayed, we had to park down underneath the apartment building. And just trying to maneuver it around in that underground parking was a chore in and of itself. And this thing's a stick shift, right? So we've talked about this before. A lot of times when you go outside the U .S., and you rent a car, it's going to be a manual transmission. Anyhow, one day they came and got me and said, hey, there's a car parked right at the top of the road. We can't get the van out of the driveway. And so you had to go up this steep hill and then make a very sharp turn right, because this was a one -way street, to get out of that parking lot. And someone had parked right on the edge of the driveway.
Yeah, so basically you just had to like close your eyes. Just kidding. Not really close your eyes. But literally gun it. But with that car there, like you couldn't go straight because then there would be cars like straight in front of you. So like you had to be able to get to the top and make that right hand. No,
there weren't cars on the other side.
weren't cars on the other side. Okay. There was like metal.
It was a metal gate. It was like a cast iron gate that they had built into the sidewalk. To keep you off.
To keep you off. The sidewalk. Keep people from parking over there on that side.
Keep people from parking over there on that side. And so anyhow, trying to make that turn, I just kind of gunned it because the van would stall out. You know, they're not the smallest four -cylinder engines that you can get. So you already had a lack of power to get up that hill. And then you had the issue with the car. And I didn't see those gates. And I just ran that van all up over one of those. Cast iron gates. And if you heard about,
if you heard about, you know, we talked a lot about this trip in the Europe trip with families. And I'll link that. But Brady was on that trip with us and he was actually very relieved that you had hit that because I had actually hit it earlier and he didn't want to tell me. And I had scraped up that brand new, you know, the very front bumper of that brand new. And he was just like, oh, thank goodness. Now I don't have to. Because then you had scraped it up. So he was actually like, oh. But, and you have said several times, Mara, the story is, like, if you don't need a vehicle that size, get something smaller. Because most people ride mopeds, right? Or very, very, very small cars. Now, it wouldn't have done for us to have two vehicles. Like, that would have just been a pain. I want to go, what do you think the slope of that driveway? Like, the grade of that driveway?
Oh, I don't know. It's 10%, 15%, it seems like. Yeah, you couldn't see over the front of the vehicle because it was pointed straight up in the air.
you couldn't
Yeah, so quite an adventure. So just be prepared for that. If you don't know how to drive a stick shift, like when you reserve it, say I've got to have, you know, an automatic.
And so this kind of points back, though, some of the reasons why I didn't enjoy Crete as much as you guys did. Because you got outside of the cities and went to all those beaches and kind of the more open roads and stuff like that. A lot of my experience was in those cities and having to deal with those type of issues. And so I honestly, I mean, Crete is somewhere that I have zero interest in ever returning to.
The other thing that I would say is that it was actually like having that garage, though, was actually such a rarity. Like those people that own that penthouse. own that garage, but most places didn't have it. And where we stayed in Herod Klingon, like you just had to find street parking or go to a lot and pay or go to a garage and pay. There was a couple of times or actually a lot of the time we got really lucky with street parking, but they didn't have parking around the apartment. I guess I should say that we rented there. There was no parking that belonged to that, at least that, you know, that we could use. So it was funny because the day that we were leaving,
was funny because the day that we were leaving, we had left the vehicle down below. while we went and grabbed lunch or something like that downtown. And so we had walked back to get the van. And when we did, someone was parked in front of the driveway. And I was like, no, you can't park there. I said, you've got to move. And the guy came out and said, well, I own this apartment building. And I was like, oh, okay.
We're like, oh, it's wonderful. We loved it. It was great. Because we dealt with like the property manager. And then they would just happen to meet us there. So, yeah, that was a little awkward, wasn't it?
I thought I was going to have to whoop that guy. I was like, no, you can't park there. Well, let's talk a little bit about snorkeling, because we've had some hit or misses with snorkeling as well.
Yeah, so we wanted to specifically point out there was a couple of times we talked at length about, you know, snorkeling and different places to snorkel in the episodes where we talked about Aruban Curacao. But I think what we probably didn't share as much was that you really had to be mindful of the current. And I think I wanted to back up before we share a couple of those stories. And it really was kind of front and center in our mind. There was one time in the Galapagos Islands when we were snorkeling and everything, you know, was fine. And then all of a sudden it was like very hard to swim. It got very like windy and choppy. And our guide there was like, okay, everybody, like, we're getting back to the boat now. We're getting out. It just basically wasn't safe. And unfortunately, a couple of months after we actually did that trip, we heard from somebody who was on the trip with us. One of, she was actually like our cabin stewardess who helped take care of everything. She actually passed away in a snorkeling incident. And so I think after that. We just became a little bit more mindful of just being cautious and how much it can change. And the wind can be very strong in Curacao and Reboot. So there were a couple of times that we snorkeled in Curacao. And I never felt like super anxious that we couldn't get by, but needing to be a strong swimmer. I think that after that, we did say, okay, from now on, we're going to take flippers. We have gotten to where we don't really take flippers when we didn't need them or whatever. But then I wanted to kind of go back. There was one instance when we did go to one particular beach that our guy that we did one of the tour with in Aruba had told us to go to. There was a shipwreck and the shipwreck that we had seen in Curacao was just very neat. And he said, well, this one's a little bit further out. And so we started out, but then we noticed very quickly that it got very, very rough. And I got to the sandbar and I was like, you know what? It's almost so rough that if I get out there. Like, I just didn't want to panic. And I think just having those few things, as I stayed on the stand bar and worried about you the rest of the time, you made it out to that, but then it was very difficult.
Yeah, I was really tired by the time I got back in. As a matter of fact, we had that one time when we were at a different beach, we were swimming along that rock wall, and you couldn't tell that the current was really strong taking you out. I guess you could have said, oh, it was so easy to swim that, that, you know, that's what it was. But then we came back and we had to go, I don't know, a quarter of a mile or so. And then a really strong outward current and had to swim against that. And it's like, and if you let up, you were going to get taken right back out. And so, I don't know, for like 20 minutes, we had to just give it our all out swim. And by the time we got up on the shore, I think we were dead. We were like, we're done for the day. You know, no more. But then it kind of ticked you off because we had seen a guy who was diving down below us. And so evidently he was below the current. And he just kind of went right underneath and popped up right on the shoreline. When we're talking about a destination, we don't necessarily tell all of the detractors, if you will. And we're talking about it because most of the time they're very minor. And compared to the rest of the trip, everything's great. But in this case, when you're out there swimming, just make sure, because we do talk a lot about snorkeling. So when you go to these places that we talk about and you go out and you want to go snorkeling. Make sure you're paying attention to things like the currents and the rip currents and stuff like that. And don't put yourself into a dangerous situation.
Yeah. I would say, I mean, that's why it's always important, like to be out there with somebody. But in this case, like I couldn't have helped you. I don't know that you could have helped me. Right. That we both had to be really strong swimmers and just kind of like be on our own. Right. So I guess just, you know, being aware of that and not pushing past your limits. And like you said, watch the weather and watch that because obviously, like from the story in the Galapagos. This is somebody who is very familiar with the place, with other people, strong swimmer, I'm sure, you know, but things do happen. And so just being, you know, being aware of that because it could take a situation, you know, you're in a beautiful tropical destination on vacation, somewhere like Aruba and Curacao and turn that into tragedy. Yeah.
What even influenced our decision in the Grand Cayman is we wanted to go to that one shipwreck, but we saw that the waves were crashing. near that shipwreck. And we were like, no, it's just too rough. And that would make it too dangerous.
Yeah, that's true. It's just not nothing is worth nothing is worth the risk. So this next one was just something just really, really interesting. So several years ago, we had the opportunity to visit Stonehenge. So I actually have a couple of little little things about this. But we had gotten there and this was in the time this was, you know, pre -COVID. And I think things are kind of getting back this way now to where you don't necessarily have to have. timed entries to everything and stuff like that. So this was the case with Stonehenge. We were just like, okay, we're just going to show up, buy our ticket and go in, come to find out. I think it was on a weekend. Come to find out. We got there. Lines are super, super long. So real quick tip about that is that I always kind of try to find a way. They had like their members entrance or something like that. Knew we're going to a couple of other places. So I went there and she's like, sure, if you buy this English heritage pass, you get like skip the line entry. And so I'm like sold because I didn't want to. you know, stand in line for an hour just to get into Stonehenge. So we are, we are there and we're just kind of walking around and lo and behold, there is a famous, I don't know, what would you call it? Politician? No. Is he a dignitary or politician? I mean,
mean, he's the former Speaker of the House. Oh,
Oh, okay. There you go. From the United States, like walking around, but he was also from Georgia. So it was somebody that you sort of knew, had a connection with.
Yeah. So as a kid, My dad was in politics, local politics, and I remember going up to the U .S. Capitol and we met with Newt Gingrich because Newt Gingrich was Speaker of the House at the time. And my dad was trying to get some help on a local project that they were doing and stuff like that. And so I had had the opportunity to meet him. And he took us on a tour of the Capitol and then the tunnels underneath, stuff like that. No way he had any clue who I was, right? Because he does this, you know, he did this like every day of his time in Washington. But it was just interesting. I looked over and, you know, he walks up and he had just written a couple of books at the time and stuff like that. And so I would say just kind of always keep your eyes peeled because you never know who you're going to see.
And you actually spoke to him, right? They came right by where we were. And so you were like.
Yeah, I just told him, I said, you know, we're from Georgia and wanted to say hello. And so, you know, we had a few minutes to talk to him. And, you know, he was he was walking around seeing Stonehenge as well. But it's funny because there are some people that are really recognizable to you. But I don't see these people all the time. Like, I never see any famous people in the airport. But my brother, on the other hand, he can't go to the airport without running into somebody or he sits next to somebody on the plane and he's like, oh, I, you know, struck up a conversation with so -and -so. And it's like, how did you even know who they were?
But especially in London, we also ran, didn't run into or speak to, but Samuel L. Jackson one time going through Piccadilly. We saw him. We're like, oh, that's got to be Samuel L. Jackson. And he is really tall. I mean, I think most people probably know that, but we're just like. He is really tall.
Yeah, there was no doubt that that was Samuel L. Jackson.
So anyway, that's a good point. So just when you're traveling, yeah, airports and on the plane and keep your eyes peeled.
The only other person that I have run into in the airport that I knew who they were is this barbecue chef named Myron Mixon. I was on the the plane train there at the Atlanta airport and it was kind of. easy to figure out who he was because he had his name on his shirt but you know i recognized who he was and then i think there was one other time where jeff foxworthy was on the plane train as well and i saw him didn't talk to him because i wasn't sure but then i heard other people around me whispering like yeah i think that's jeff foxworthy and so so keep your eyes peeled when you're traveling especially you never know who you're gonna get to see
keep your eyes peeled when you're traveling especially you never know who you're gonna get to see So the next one is kind of like, I don't know, just like be aware, right, when you're traveling. And I don't think we told the story. I kind of told the story on Instagram, I think one time in a video. But when we visited the Trevi Fountain in Rome, this was one of those things where we're like, you know, when we first get here and after we like kind of, you know, have a relaxing afternoon so we can get acclimated, we went and walked around and did some things like seeing the piazzas and going to the Spanish Sheps and the Trevi Fountain. And so you're just kind of like. You know, getting into the swing of things. And of course, so this guy comes up and he was like, oh, I'll take your picture for one, you know, one euro. It's the Polaroid, whatever. And you don't really want it. But he's already taken it like before you can even like know what's going on. Well, so then, though, after it comes out, then he wants.
He wanted 10 euros.
10 euros for it. Right. And I think it was two, you know, two Polaroids or something. He wants 10 euros for it. And then, of course, you know, then he's just going to haggle you and hassle you. And it's just, you know, it's just frustrating. when you're traveling to kind of, you know, have to deal with that, I guess. And it can happen in, you know, a lot of touristy places. So just know that we actually ended up, I don't know, did we end up paying that or haggling for him for like five? Like you, you know, you feel bad for him and they've used their Polaroid, but you really shouldn't, you know, whatever. So I think we ended up giving him something for him. I still do have the pictures, you know, so it's a fun little memento, but just know that you can, you can walk away and they'll keep haggling you and whatever. But just being aware, I guess, of that. And then just, you know, if that's just clearly saying, you know, no, no, no, I'm not interested.
Yeah, but you were taking food off his kid's plates. Yeah, there you go.
Yeah, there you go. Yeah.
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Our last little story that we wanted to tell is something that Scott, like, I don't know. I think you end up telling a lot of people. I know. I remember you telling, like, when we were with Manal in Egypt, like, telling her about, you know, about this. So I'll let Scott tell you. Well, I guess I should say. A lot of times Scott will say, yeah, but have you ever been kidnapped on a safari in India? Or, you know, some preface in it, something like that. So anyway, that's his. So I'm going to let him tell it.
Yeah, so I have a very unique experience. And my friend Tammy, who's been on our show before talking about Aruba, she's the one that has been, you know, like a dozen times or more to Aruba, loves it. But she and I worked together and we had gone to India. And we were there for several weeks and we had handlers with us the whole time. And these were people who just kind of watched after us, made sure that. you know, everything was good. They would take us around. They'd make sure that we had good places to eat where we wouldn't get sick. They'd make sure that, you know, if we went out to do some sightseeing on the weekend, they'd make sure that we were going somewhere that was safe or, you know, when people would come up, they would kind of shush them away and keep them away from you. And so one weekend in the middle, they were like, hey, we have to go home this weekend because we were in a different city. from where they lived. And they were like, but you're staying, and we were in Bangalore. They were like, you're in one of the finest hotels in all of India. And we were. We were at the Lila Palace in Bangalore. And that place is fantastic. And they were like, there's nothing that you need to go outside of the hotel for. They have everything that you could want right here. Just stay in the hotel. Relax. They've got a spa. They've got the pool. They've got restaurants here. There's no need for you to leave this hotel at all. And so, you know, we were like, OK, OK. And so Saturday morning, we get up and we meet downstairs for breakfast. And Tammy, we're sitting there at breakfast. She was like, huh. So what are we going to do today? And the first thing that came out of my mind was we should go on a safari. So number one, I broke the rule. Don't leave the hotel. So anyhow, we went, I asked the concierge, I was like, hey, we want to go on a safari because I think my brother had been on one just like a few months before in a town outside of Bangalore where he would go for work. And so I was like, we should see if we could do this. And they were like, oh, yeah, you could go to the Bangalore Zoo. They have a safari that's attached to it and, you know, it drives you through. And you'll see all the animals and stuff like that. So we did. And we get there. And we go and buy our tickets. And the tickets aren't much. They're like $4 or $5 per person to go on the safari. And we should have known when we get on the bus, the only two seats that were available on this safari bus were the best seats in the whole thing. And it's like, huh. So they had waited for us to come and they kept those two seats available. And so, you know, we went on the safari. It was great. The driver would, I had taken my camera and the driver would get my camera every once in a while and he'd lean outside of his window. And, you know, he was taking like really up close photos of tigers and stuff like that. And so at the end, we had just said, we should give them a nice tip. And I think we tipped them like 20 bucks or something like that. Remember, the tickets were like $4. And so as we're trying to get off, the guide backs himself up against our seat and empties off the bus. And the driver's like, you're Americans. You have more money than this. And we're like, no, we gave you 20 bucks. We're not going to give you any more. Well, they hurry everybody off the bus, close the door and start to try to leave. And so at that point, it was kind of the had to make a decision of what we're going to do. And so I stood up and I slammed the guy over that was blocking us as hard as I could against the windows on the other side. And the bus driver slammed on brakes. And so when he did, I just grabbed Tammy and we busted open the bus door and jumped off. But, you know, it was a situation where we had gone somewhere. that we were advised not to, to not leave the hotel. We'd gone out there without a handler. And we had kind of, you know, we stood out in this place. And so we put ourselves in this position. And it's why often when we're talking about going to some of these places, Melissa and I will recommend is you probably want to have a guide. in these places. Like we wouldn't recommend anyone just show up in Cairo and try to go and guide themselves. I think that would be a mistake. India is definitely one of those places you don't just show up and maneuver around on your own. You can do it. And I'm sure people do, you know, every day, but I wouldn't recommend it to you. And so there you have it.
so there you have it. Scott's famous safari kidnapping story.
You know, as much of a safari as it was, it was at the Bangalore Zoo. But I know that guy woke up with a nasty headache the next day.
So 10 out of 10, don't recommend.
Yeah, don't recommend. Matter of fact, we couldn't even enjoy the zoo itself because we were like, we got to get back, you know, before something else happens to us.
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