A lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco
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Re: A lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco
#2he still pays taxes on the gifted land :) thats very interesting
not that there is a tax, but that the collector has still been in contact with him or his estate
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#3There was a story some years back about a guy who got on the wrong flight to Oakland ... he ended up in Auckland instead.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/27/us/wrong-flight-passengers-tr...
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#4I lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (eh?) for 23 years and we have similar stories.
There is an island that is part of Nova Scotia called Cape Breton with a city named Sydney (so Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada) with population of ~30K. Every few years we get a tourist that confuses that with Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
They generally realize something is wrong when they switch planes in Halifax from a Jet (Boeing 737, Airbus 320, etc) to a 19 person turboprop for the last few hundred kilometers to Sydney.
News Articles:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2172858.stm
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/italian-tourists-...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/31/teen-accidenta...
Wikipedia Link:
Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney,_Nova_Scotia
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney
Re: A lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco
#5> Kreuz, who typically enjoyed drinking 17 beers a day
This was the point where I was hooked
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#6> Kreuz, who typically enjoyed drinking 17 beers a day This was the point where I was hooked
Remember, that was the time when being an alcoholic was still considered funny.
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#8> Kreuz, who typically enjoyed drinking 17 beers a day This was the point where I was hooked
Belgian friend had a brewery job in Leuven when he was younger and said free beer and frequent tastings were part of the job.
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#9I used to work in a State Capitol, and would occasionally run into confused tourists in strange places, or very much lost. They were always Chinese or German and I’d run into them two or three times a year.
One couple thought they were in Niagara Falls. Another somehow found themselves stuck in a secured employee parking garage. The strangest one was a person on a self guided tour who took a wrong turn and ended up wandering into a very unsafe neighborhood where I parked.
I think the root cause was a badly translated tour book or itinerary. The one of the Germans bought me a beer and definitely had an imperfect understanding of the geography!
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#10Wholesome story. Pretty great how welcoming everyone in the story is.