🇺🇸 Guam | Travel Horror Story: My Trip to Guam

[bob]

@TainanCowboy

@bob

OK, it’s been decided that in bvetween Monday class and Saturday calss, in that no classez that is scheduled for Feb?-Feb? whatevr, I’m “allowed” to go as part of mine resaerch into the travel the world and learn English series, unrealated to Lonely Planet etc.
The only thing is I’d rather go to yap in that yap exhibits the more progressive fashion statement etc. and so wonder upon which part of loinder isle known as Guam etc, might one locate the moe Yapinian fashion statement, cough*?
Also, let it be known that for reasons unkown Costco has une sale dans le fine cognac, une bottle de le fine francais cognac zhi shi ba bai kuai qian le. Etc.

Keep yer hands where we’uns kin see 'em…

Bang!

[yyy]

Make Guam great again!

Trump to Guam Governor: North Korea Threats Will Boost Tourism ‘Tenfold’...

“I can say this: You’re going to go up, like, tenfold with the expenditure of no money.”

[…]

Mr. Trump responded: “We’re going to do a great job. You don’t have to worry about a thing. They should have had me eight years ago, somebody with my thought process.”

He added, “And frankly, you could’ve said that for the last three presidents.”

[hansioux]

@yyy

“I can say this: You’re going to go up, like, tenfold with the expenditure of no money.”

While real numbers indicate just the opposite.

If I goto Saipan when Kimmy finally loses it, would the nuclear fallout reach me?

[scommy]

That is a good story, thanks for sharing.

When I was a kid our rental car got burgled whilst we were at a very crowded beach in Hawaii. Was a well organised hit, smashed a window and they took absolutely everything we had in the car including kids clothes.

Your envelope trick would not have worked there ^^

[yyy]

[DrewC]

OP post… what did I just read? I can’t believe him getting banned from Taiwan for a year is a secondary plot point, almost an aside in his story about getting robbed in Guam. I mean, what happened then? He couldn’t go home? And that writing style… did the OP type this while drunk? I guess we won’t get any answers. It’s 9 years old. The way his luck was going, he and his missus probably ended up in a Bali prison.

[Charlie_Jack]

He begins his account with “Hen jiou, hen jiou yi-chen” (hěnjiǔ hěnjiǔ yǐqián/很久很久以前), i.e., “a long, long time ago,” and later he gets more specific: “It happened like ten years ago.”

I think that explains why the visa problem was not a big deal to him at the time of the writing of the post.

jdsmith was once a regular on the board. He wrote about 13,000 posts over the course of about seven years.

I’m not trying to pick at/on anyone; I’m just trying to add a little perspective.

Peace

[Yang_Gui_Zi]

@Charlie_Jack

He begins his account with “Hen jiou, hen jiou yi-chen”

In a galaxy far, far away.

[Brianjones]

That was NORMAL back then.

Visas were accessed and info on said visas were distributed by an arcane process .

Getting banned or overstayed?

Badges of honour my man.

Taiwan was very different back then.

You should hear my SARS war stories.

[DrewC]

@Brianjones

You should hear my SARS war stories.

By all means. I’ll get the popcorn

[Icon]

@DrewC

@Brianjones

You should hear my SARS war stories.

By all means. I’ll get the popcorn

Here, here. That was a crazy time.

[Charlie_Jack]

@Yang_Gui_Zi

@Charlie_Jack

He begins his account with “Hen jiou, hen jiou yi-chen”

In a galaxy far, far away.

Sometimes, reading some of the old posts, I get a similar feeling.

[epicphony]

@Icon

Here, here. That was a crazy time.

Their, they’re.

[Brianjones]

In my first three years here on the island I had to deal with a massive natural disaster (Typhoon Nari) and SARS.

During Typhoon Nari I was trapped on the East coast for five days (I had to fly home in the end) and the MRT was out of action for about six months!
My roommate said he saw dogs floating past him on top of cars.
Friends used to visit our apartment for weeks on end to shower because we still had a water supply .

Yet most of the newbies have never even heard of Typhoon Nari and think a electrical blackout of two hours is hardship

And yet I still have to listen to the guys who were here when the Chinese missiles flew over (1997 ) , when CSB got elected the first time and who experienced the horrific 921 earthquake (1999) which killed 2000 people.

Oh yeah and the economy was at a tail end of a huge boom, people generally loved foreigners then with much less nastiness in the media and there weren’t so many depressed people about. Young people liked to go to bars and listen to live music. Rave culture was even big for a bit.
Place was a lot wilder but it was also a lot more optimistic . You could go into a bar and the place would be heaving with people having a good time.

There were lots of dodgy foreigners but some incredible characters who were here exactly because it had been wild and adventurous…

Those few years were pretty crazy my friends!
These last few years are kinda boring(10 plus>)
Be careful what I wish for I guess.

[Rocket]

@Brianjones

That was NORMAL back then.

Visas were accessed and info on said visas were distributed by an arcane process .

Getting banned or overstayed?

Badges of honour my man.

Yeah, used to be everyone knew someone who was on an overstay.
There were dudes who were, like 7, 8 YEARS overstayed, they couldn’t leave for fear of getting nabbed.
Except if they took the train to Kaohsiung, and they could take the 24-hour ferry to Macau and fly out of Honkers.
Because the port in KS wasn’t hooked up to the Immigration computer system.

[Yang_Gui_Zi]

@Charlie_Jack

Sometimes, reading some of the old posts, I get a similar feeling.

I just meant that he was probably thinking along the lines of Star Wars by starting his story that way.

[Brianjones]

My five year old starts most stories like that.

[Charlie_Jack]

@Yang_Gui_Zi

I just meant that he was probably thinking along the lines of Star Wars by starting his story that way.

I got the Star Wars reference; I was just going with it as a metaphor. I meant that the old posts seemed not only from another time, but also maybe from another Taiwan.

[afterspivak]

More fun and games in Guam in 2023.

115 tourists from Taiwan stranded in typhoon-hit Guam - Focus Taiwan

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[ChewDawg]

@Charlie_Jack

I got the Star Wars reference; I was just going with it as a metaphor. I meant that the old posts seemed not only from another time, but also maybe from another Taiwan.

One of my favorite threads on this site by far: The oddest foreigner you’ve met here – share your story - Taiwan / Living in Taiwan - Forumosa