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There is a tendency to think you are barely noticed, and forgotten tomorrow, by the townspeople you interact with.
But I remember hundreds of individuals from my travels -- why shouldn't that many remember me? That American in the truck with me in Mali. The American that asked me the way to the bus station. The American that I practiced a little school English, when I was a giggling teenager in Korea or Quebec. Roadside riders in Romania and Guatemala, who had never been in a car before, ever.
If I remember hundreds of encounters, why wouldn't hundreds remember me?
The Italian cruise officer who flirted and then picked me up on the ship; six weeks later, I was on a long flight to Northern Italy for two weeks. Oh yeah, I'm damn sure he remembers.
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The Italian cruise officer who flirted and then picked me up on the ship; six weeks later, I was on a long flight to Northern Italy for two weeks. Oh yeah, I'm damn sure he remembers.
I would like to think some of the people I have met in my travels will hopefully remember me. However, I realize that a lot of the people I have met on my travels regularly interact with tourists every day and I am likely just one of dozens or even hundreds of people they met that week.
All that being said, I will treasure my memories of the people I have met on my travels for a long, long time.
I would like to think some of the people I have met in my travels will hopefully remember me. However, I realize that a lot of the people I have met on my travels regularly interact with tourists every day and I am likely just one of dozens or even hundreds of people they met that week.
All that being said, I will treasure my memories of the people I have met on my travels for a long, long time.
That's true. In a month, the bus passenger next to you rides once, but the ticket seller sees a thousand riders. But I don't often remember them, either. People I remember don't include mane clerks ir waiters or conductors, either, even though I might remember the circumstances.
I have travelled a lot and remember many things that happened during the travelling. But I could not remember the names of the people involved or encountered and I doubted they could remember mine.
I have travelled a lot and remember many things that happened during the travelling. But I could not remember the names of the people involved or encountered and I doubted they could remember mine.
You can vividly remember a person for a lifetime, without ever knowing their name, ever. If I spent only one day in a place, 50 years ago, my memory of that place is popuilated by at least one person with whom I have I had a definable social interchange, or maybe I just saw and noted them from a distance. They are "memorable", without ever knowing that they were seen at all. How do I know when I was that person, to someone else? Still in their memory as some pedestrian.
When I was about 12, a bus came through town, and a woman wiped the condensation off her window to see out. It looked like she was waving at me, and I waved back. How could she have guessed that she would be remembered 72 years later, and described in media with global distribution, read by some millennial in India? Did she remember, all her life, the boy who waved to her in some non-descript town half-way to Ironwood?
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If I spent only one day in a place, 50 years ago, my memory of that place is popuilated by at least one person with whom I have I had a definable social interchange
This is my experience, and why we travel via private guest homes, rather than hotels. Of hundreds of stays in each... I remember every host and elements of our encounters and relationships. I remember (2) hotel hosts. +/-.
Women who travel alone try to blend in and not stick out.
I'd be thrilled to be remembered as a petite woman just strolling through an airport or sitting on a train.
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