Every Tuesday, it's Travel Talk on Twitter! There are two scheduled sessions to join: 9:30am GMT and 9:30pm GMT. Follow the #TTOT hashtag on Twitter and join in on the fun! Here's the round-up of this week's #TTOT on "Out of Your Comfort Zone!"
Q1 via iavravillaassoc: How would you describe your comfort zone?
- pineywoozle: My comfort zone is the universe. I am only rarely shaken of my basic belief of the core decency of people & the splendor of nature
- thetravelmav: Sitting in a bar with a cold beer, rucksack at my knees, hot weather, at the start of another adventure
- lethers: My comfort zone starts in a good cafe and ends when the adrenaline level reaches about 25%
- iamfrafuga: Comfort zone is a guaranteed bed, meal, hot shower... Everything you don't feel the need of when you're on an adventure
- Inga_Ros: My comfort zone is defined by the people who surround me
- TravelistaNina: My comfort zone is pretty wide because I love to try new things. But if I don't eat every three hours I'm not a happy gal
Q2 via crozul: Share your most memorable "out of comfort zone" experiences
- MyHotelGuy: When my host family in China took care of me when I was sick. I didn't speak Mandarin well..they didn't speak English. Humanity!
- JauntingKerrs: Paddling on a sufboard across a Croc-infested river mouth in Boca Barranca, Costa Rica
- Xplore724: Sailing down the East coast US in Dec. with 20 ft. seas & 50 knot winds was definitely out of my comfort zone
- WindstarCruises: Jungle huts in Africa (true story). No electricity, no running water. Just baboons beating on the walls at night
- chippy2u: Bungy jumping the Nevis in New Zealand - 134 metres into a river gorge
- TravelApprentce: Quitting my career to travel Solo, that was huge the first time
Q3 via RobertKCole: What hotel experience left you furthest out of your comfort zone?
- CruiseBuzz: An eco-lodge in Ecuador's cloud forest. No electricity and big bugs
- faeyakof: Finding out there was no flush and no sink and the only thing separating the room and the toilet was a curtain
- daisy_cropper: Creepy hostel had the floor painted blood red with flecks of paint splattered up the walls... It looked a little too real to me
- travelfootprint: A hotel in Istanbul where the front desk checked someone else into our room after we had gone to bed, twice
- gregoates: Ecolodge in Iquitos, Peru in the Amazon. Tarantulas everywhere
- emeraldcitytooz: Very thin walls at older Paris Hotel. Must have been honeymooners next door
Q4 via Walsden_Mercers: Whats your best 'Won't be doing that again experience'?
- KWanderlust3: Probably eating scorpions yuck
- BespokeTravels: Thinking tiny green things in Thailand were peas & eating spoonful - they were hot peppers
- L_e_a_h: I won't be eating that corn ice cream in China again. Disgusting
- youngadventures: Eating fried guinea pig in Peru. Won't be doing that again
- WorldTravelWH: Bus ride from Agra to Jaipur & this dude decides to make his "own" bathroom in the back of the bus (which had no bathroom)
- Bloggeries: Drinking shots of cobra snake whiskey along the Mekong
Q5 via
- thetravelmav: Taught me world is an extraordinary, magical, living thing... learn to take the knocks & shocks -feel more alive
- traveledearth: It's reminded me that life's too short to not love what you do each day
- roniweiss Being out of your comfort zone is why a lot of us travel. It makes you wiser & generally helps with patience
- habagatcentral: Curiosity--The World is Just Awesome! Made me humble and earned more respect for different cultures
- KathEgan: It has given me hope for humanity and the future
- katyabroad: It's taught me how to look fear in the face and overcome it
- traveldudes: "The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all!" (Richard Branson)
And there you have it, "Out of Your Comfort Zone"!
Next week's #TTOT topic is: "Time Zones." Submit your questions HERE! And don't forget to follow the #TTOT every Tuesday at 9:30am and 9:30pm GMT to chat about all things travel!
As always, a HUGE travel community thank you to our #TTOT hosts and organizers: traveldudes, roniweiss, toddwassel, traveldesigned, insidetravellab, WildJunket, tbloggersunite and mobilelawyer!
Have YOU got anything to add to the Out of Your Comfort Zone discussion?
© Connie Hum 2011
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