All posts tagged: lost in translation

Confessions of a Jetsetter w/ Maze Marshall

“I’m a paralyzed veteran who uses a power wheelchair and I have congestive heart failure. I took my wife to Frankfurt, Germany in March. Once we arrived, an old Army buddy met us at the airport. There weren’t any accessible vehicles available so I put my wife, luggage and oxygen in a taxi to the hotel. He and I would take the subway as my research showed we were only 6 stops away. My research was wrong, we got off the subway and were about 1 mile away from the hotel. Normally this wouldn’t have been a problem, but my chair was low on power. We got within a half mile of the hotel when I had to go inside an office building to seek shelter from freezing temperatures and use their electricity to charge my chair. I’m not fluent in German and neither was my friend however, the building we were in had an English speaking receptionist, she used to be married to a G. I. The only problem is I don’t have a …

Confessions of a Jetsetter w/ Jenné Claiborne

“I traveled to Thailand for 6 weeks a few years ago. I didn’t know anyone there, nor did I know the language. Still, I’m always down for an adventure, especially in a beautiful place…  A few days after arriving in Bangkok at the start of the trip, I was hooked up with a friend of a NYC friend who’s been living in the city for a decade. She invited me to stay with her in her beautiful home, and I couldn’t believe my luck. The place was spacious, cool (great AC), and in a quiet and slightly secluded part of the city. The son of one of her American friends was also in town, so he and I went out for some late-night bar hopping. He had been there for months already, and sort of spoke the language and knew his way around, so I felt comfortable letting him be my guide for a few hours on this solo-trip. The night was a lot of fun, but as we got into the wee hours of …