Overcoming Travel Fears Why One Bad Experience Shouldn't Stop You
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00:00:02.580 | - Have you been in a situation, something went wrong?
00:00:07.640 | You mentioned your bag got stolen,
00:00:09.760 | you've gotten mugged, something like that.
00:00:11.680 | And like, why didn't that stop you from travel?
00:00:14.640 | When I think so many people,
00:00:16.320 | that's their fear that something bad would happen.
00:00:19.120 | And if it does happen, they might not wanna travel again.
00:00:22.280 | I have to assume it's happened to you
00:00:23.960 | and you've kept going.
00:00:25.720 | - Yeah, you know, I got stabbed in Columbia.
00:00:27.920 | Um, and my mother always sends me like,
00:00:32.920 | every State Department warning about Mexico.
00:00:36.660 | But it's like, hey, like we live in the States.
00:00:38.880 | People get gunned down going to Walmart, right?
00:00:42.460 | There are mass shootings all the time in this country.
00:00:46.220 | Bad things happen, it's just part of life.
00:00:49.400 | It doesn't matter if you're home, or in Mexico,
00:00:52.920 | or in Thailand, or in Paris, or Japan, shit happens.
00:00:57.920 | And so what, you know, you can live in fear and say,
00:01:05.200 | I'm just gonna never go anywhere.
00:01:07.080 | But then you walk across the street to a movie theater
00:01:11.960 | and then, you know, make it out because it's a psychopath.
00:01:15.120 | Or you get hit by a car on your way to work, you know?
00:01:18.660 | So it's like, are you really gonna live in the fear of a,
00:01:22.040 | you know, every what if?
00:01:23.400 | If so, then like, never leave your house.
00:01:25.920 | - If you're up for it,
00:01:27.120 | I'd love to hear the story in Columbia,
00:01:29.280 | and maybe from the perspective of,
00:01:31.180 | I think a lot of people don't really plan for that.
00:01:34.160 | And so they don't know what they would do
00:01:35.120 | in that circumstance.
00:01:36.120 | And I imagine, you know, you're here now,
00:01:37.880 | so it all went well.
00:01:39.920 | What kind of happened, and how did you know what to do,
00:01:43.120 | and where did you end up going,
00:01:44.520 | and how did the trip unfold after that?
00:01:46.480 | - Yeah, I was in Bogota,
00:01:49.000 | and I had my phone out,
00:01:52.280 | and long story short,
00:01:54.320 | you shouldn't have fancy electronics out.
00:01:57.000 | And I just forgot to put it back in
00:02:00.240 | before I left this cafe.
00:02:02.380 | And so I tried to take it,
00:02:05.480 | and he jerked backwards instead of just going forward.
00:02:09.960 | And so like, we started tussling.
00:02:12.280 | And then, yeah, he had a small little knife.
00:02:15.480 | I thought he was just punching me.
00:02:16.780 | I mean, if he had like shown the knife,
00:02:18.200 | I would've been like, "Yo, take the phone."
00:02:20.280 | But afterwards, you know, I was like, "Oh, so sorry."
00:02:24.720 | And I was just covered in blood.
00:02:26.320 | It's 'cause like-
00:02:27.720 | - I assume you went to the hospital,
00:02:29.040 | and everything was fine?
00:02:30.440 | - Yeah, the whole thing cost me like 50 bucks.
00:02:32.720 | Honestly, like I, you know,
00:02:36.440 | the flight home was like a thousand bucks,
00:02:38.680 | and I have to reimburse me for that.
00:02:40.480 | But the, you know, the 50 bucks,
00:02:47.320 | I was like, "That's not worth the paperwork."
00:02:49.400 | I mean, they could've done it for the 50 bucks,
00:02:51.600 | but I did it for the flight.
00:02:53.120 | - Would you go back to Bogota after that?
00:02:55.080 | - Oh, yeah, 100%.
00:02:57.140 | I love, love Bogota.
00:03:01.640 | I was really sad to have to go home.
00:03:03.840 | - Yeah, I've also been to Bogota,
00:03:05.440 | and I think especially, I mean, it's just a great place.
00:03:08.880 | Like, I love the country of Columbia.
00:03:10.960 | I've been there a few times.
00:03:12.120 | Bogota is close enough, and no, you know,
00:03:15.800 | time zone good enough that I think you could even do it
00:03:17.720 | in a long weekend and have a great trip.
00:03:19.560 | Not that, I don't wanna, you know, not do slow travel,
00:03:24.520 | but I think for those who don't have the time to do it,
00:03:27.080 | it's still a place that you can go
00:03:28.840 | in a short period of time because of the proximity.
00:03:31.960 | - It's such a phenomenal place.
00:03:33.840 | I was there for six weeks,
00:03:35.120 | and I'm gonna stay in another six weeks.