{"id":1763,"date":"2013-12-15T18:47:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T07:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dontforgettomove.com\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2015-11-09T22:42:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T06:42:57","slug":"weirdest-travel-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dontforgettomove.com\/weirdest-travel-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Jules and Christine: Weirdest Travel Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Peeing in Front of a Little Person and Panamanian &#8220;Health Care&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This week&#8217;s Ask Jules and Christine question doesn&#8217;t come from one particular person, but a question we&#8217;ve been asked many times from friends and fellow travelers. It&#8217;s hard to pinpoint the absolute weirdest moment we&#8217;ve had while traveling, but these are definitely at the top of the list. Enjoy and please send us your travel questions! From the serious to the ridiculous or intrusive. We&#8217;ll answer anything!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>So be sure to email us all your questions at\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"mailto:dontforgettomove@gmail.com?subject=Ask%20Us%20Anything\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">dontforgettomove@gmail.com<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0or write them in the comment section below.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;What is your weirdest travel moment?&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dontforgettomove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bocasdeltoro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1775\" src=\"https:\/\/dontforgettomove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bocasdeltoro.jpg\" alt=\"bocasdeltoro\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Christine: Adventures at a Panamanian hospital<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My weirdest travel moment tested both my Spanish skills and my stomach.\u00a0I was out one night at a hostel in Bocas del Toro, Panama. The hostel was adjacent to the ocean and out back they had cut a hole in the deck to essentially make a swimming pool. At the very bottom of the pool was a shipwrecked boat that had coral growing on it. In the states, this would be a lawsuit waiting to happen. But in Panama? No problem. One of the guys in our group jumped in and cut his foot on the coral. He was bleeding a bit but we didn\u2019t realize how much until we stopped to grab food on the way home. He was leaving a pool of blood trailing down the street and more blood was gushing from his foot. <strong>Two police officers came over and demanded that he go to the hospital.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the only one who spoke Spanish in the group, I was elected to go with him to translate. They sent an <strong>\u201cambulance\u201d which was more of a wooden cart<\/strong> than anything else. Seriously, not even a Band-Aid in sight. At the hospital I used my broken Spanish to explain what happened, as he continued to bleed all over the waiting room. They took us into the clinic and I watched them stitch up his foot without a lick of anesthesia. After they finished, we tried to find a cab to get back to the hostel. The streets were barren of course, as this was about 4 am, so we went back to the hospital. When they saw us coming they locked the doors and wouldn\u2019t let us re-enter. We had to walk back to the hostel in the rain. Thank you Panamanian health care!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dontforgettomove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/sink1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1777\" src=\"https:\/\/dontforgettomove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/sink1.jpg\" alt=\"sink1\" width=\"700\" height=\"462\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jules: Peeing into a kitchen sink in front of a little person in Uribia, Colombia<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ok, so I know this sounds really weird, but it\u2019s true and I swear it was her idea.\u00a0We were <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a title=\"Cabo de la Vela: On Way to the Wayuu\" href=\"https:\/\/dontforgettomove.com\/cabo-de-la-vela-colombia-travel\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">on our way back from Cabo de la Vela in Northern Colombia<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>, after sitting in\u00a0a bumpy 4&#215;4 for 5 hours, cramped in with a dozen people, chickens, goats and three\u00a0desert tortoises, and I was busting for a toilet stop.\u00a0When we finally stopped in Uribia my first point of call was a toilet. An aging\u00a0cowboy on the corner directed me to a small restaurant, which ended up being more\u00a0like a residential house, and I was ushered through the living room and out the back.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unfortunately all I found out there was what looked like a locked storage cupboard.\u00a0By this stage I was about to burst. I was just standing around, visibly distressed,\u00a0when a woman of smaller stature (about 4ft) came up and tapped me on the arm\u00a0and pointed to a little sink. I asked her if she was serious and she just keep saying <em>si<\/em>\u00a0and to go for it.\u00a0Hesitantly I approached the kitchen sink, as she approached the one next to me and\u00a0started washing up some dishes. <strong>She was standing on an old crate so she could reach\u00a0the taps, and I was peeing into this little sink as she looked across at me and smiled.<\/strong>\u00a0I thought I would have got a little stage fright from those watchful eyes, but the\u00a0sound of running water next to me helped and before I knew it I was thanking\u00a0her and ducking out the back door. A memorable moment and a reminder that\u00a0sometimes you just need to go with the flow. 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