I just came back from a holiday trip in Japan, and I feel I will keep many good memories from that experience. One of them was waking up at 3AM and start hiking around Mount Fuji for sunrise. This felt quite like a unique experience, out of the beaten paths and I’m glad we did it!
What’s one good story you’ll keep from your last trips?
Taiwan. I wanted to try on a pair of shoes. The sales person was gone a long time. We asked what happened to her. They didn’t have my size, so she went to all the other shoe stores in on the block checking if they had my size. Incredible customer service. Quite unreal to a USA native.
I was in Japan buying a souvenir for my mom. I had settled on a really nice hanging wall scroll with a landscape view. The salesman packages it up, and I realise that this is going into checked baggage on my flight home and is kind of fragile. I mention this and the guy goes and digs up all sorts of additional packaging, bubble wrap, and twine and ties it up so securely that he cut his fingers on the twine. The man injured himself so that I could get his product safely into an airplane.
That was 19 years ago, and I will never be in that shop again, but I will also never forget that.