What's the weirdest thing you have ever seen on vacation? (pictures)

[proud2BlibKansan]

Last year I saw a girl on the beach in California chasing a boy and hitting him with an empty WalMart sack. That was odd.

But what I saw today beats that. We are in Michigan. We stopped at a beautiful little park today that overlooks a river. There's a great view from this park of a gorgeous old bridge over this river.



As we pulled in and parked, two girls pulled in next to us and got out and went over to the deck overlooking the river and took off their shirts and shorts. Looked like they were going to lay out and tan.

But no.

One of them jumped in the water, got out and took out a bottle of what I assumed was sunscreen. But she poured it on her head and worked up a good lather.



Then she lathered up her legs and shaved.



And she got up on the railing and shaved her underarms.



Then she jumped in and rinsed off.

She handed her friend the bottle and her friend did the same thing.

So that's the weirdest thing I have ever seen on vacation. How about you? Did you take pictures? :)

[BrklynLiberal]

1. No indoor plumbing where they live???

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. We wondered if they were homeless or runaways

We felt bad laughing at them but it really was funny.

[sasquatch]

31. If the back looks as good as the front they can live in my apartment for free

:D

[proud2BlibKansan]

37. LOL They looked like jail bait

Couldn't have been much older than 16.

[leeroysphitz]

3. My parents had bought an old cabin on lake Superior in northern(most) Mich.

It had a toilet and running water provided by a rusty old pipe that fed directly from the lake. We couldn't drink the water and there was no shower or bath. So for a month every summer I bathed in the lake.

There was one over the air TV station (they played nbc some nights and cbs other nights), only a few usable radio stations and no phone.

I hated going there s a child but these days I wish we still had that little shack. I could use the seclusion and scenery. Copper harbor in the summer was a fine place to be. Oh well.

Have fun on the rest of your trip.

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. Did you go to the local public park and bathe?

:)

Still no radio here. One NPR station but the signal is weak where we are staying.

But it is sure beautiful here.

[leeroysphitz]

11. We didn't need the park since the cabin was on (about 25 yards from)

Lake Superior.


No NPR in them days either. :(

[Blue Diadem]

4. OMG, that's funny.

Maybe the young ladies were primitive camping somewhere. Did you happen to notice their state tag? maybe they were traveling and taking turns driving through and thought it would be a good way to uh..clean up.

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. Michigan tag

[BrotherBuzz]

5. Those girls beat my dinosaur any day

[Pierre.Suave]

7. ROFLMAO!!!!!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[ghostsofgiants]

16. That....is the best picture I have ever seen.

[WannaBeGrumpy]

39. OMG...i am seriously laughing so hard right now...

hahaahahhaahahah:rofl:

[madeline_con]

43. deleted

[arcadian]

6. I saw a tarantula cross the highway

In New Mexico while hitchhiking on Route 666 on my birthday. :D

[XemaSab]

8. I can do you one better

I saw a tarantula hawk ATTACKING a tarantula in Arizona! :o

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. We saw a pair of bald eagles yesterday

But no tarantula.

[arcadian]

17. A week ago I saw a snake with a trout in it's mouth.

The snake was tiny. It was the strangest thing, I thought it was an eel at first, then later that day I saw a Timber Rattler crossing the Parkway. First time ever seeing one of those. It was beautiful.

[XemaSab]

24. Oh, and while this wasn't on vacation

last night I found a snake caught in a spider web in the garage! :o

[Kali]

25. you mean route 66

there used to be a 666 but they changed it to 191 - it runs north and south through eastern AZ and you can sure see tarantulas on it - at least this time of year in my area - and snakes and army worms and horse lubbers and rattle snakes and toads ... lots of road kill too

[arcadian]

29. It was still 666 when I was on there

:D

[raptor_rider]

46. It's actually 491 now

still have a lot of accidents on it. Runs up to Cortez, CO and down the western part of NM

[Kali]

60. I see by the google you are correct in respect to the OP

although in fairness to myself it IS 191 down my way B-)

[ScreamingMeemie]

13. You are here? In Michigan? With me? Right now?

:bounce: I hope you are having a nice time. Because I am not a native I will tell you this... Michiganders are weird. ;) But I like a few of them anyway.

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. We are in the UP

Silver City - way west along the coast. Close to the Porcupine Mountains.

But I am sure you could sense the good vibes my presence brought. :)

How ya doin, Mrs G? :hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

19. I'm okay.

The Porcupine Mountains were MrG's favorite place on earth. He and his cousin (the one I've got the other thread going on) would go, once a summer, hiking and camping up there. We were going to take BabyG this summer. It is beautiful country up there. You picked the right part of Michigan to visit.

[proud2BlibKansan]

20. It's amazing how rustic it is

You drive forever and see only trees.

But it is also sad to see so much poverty. Tons of cars parked on the side of the road for sale. Also jet skis and snowmobiles and campers and boats.

We also have seen 3 or 4 Obama signs :)

[ScreamingMeemie]

22. Yes it is. The very first time they went, they went to an army surplus

store and bought tons of K rations and then got beer. They loaded up their packs, went about a mile and then sat down and had a feast to get rid of half of it because it was too heavy to carry. There is a lot of poverty up in the UP. Some of the saddest stories I've ever heard come from up there. They should have let Wisconsin have. They're all Packer fans anyway. ;)

[Swede]

14. We were in Texas goofing off for the summer.

It was 115 and humid. My friends went into a garage to get chips and drinks. I sat in the car with the air conditioner on. There was a beat up old Chevy Suburban next to us. The back door opens,first a hand,then the rest of the guy slides out and he lands on the top of his head,falls over and lays there. He then began to piss himself,the stream running down the inclined pavement. I look up and there is cop with one of those mountie looking hats,with the strap on the back of his head,and aviator shades on watching this guy. The cop looks up at me,looks at the drunk,looks at me,then drives off. :shrug:

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

15. Easy for me... weirdest and worst

thing ever seen...



broccoli on a pizza

YEECH

[proud2BlibKansan]

21. That is weird

LOL

[LostinVA]

38. How is broccoli on a pizza weird?

[deucemagnet]

49. Broccoli is a common topping for white pizza.

In fact, that pizza in that photo looks like a white pizza with broccoli and tomato. It looks good, too! :9

[RoyGBiv]

23. Weirdest thing with a pic ...

I've seen lots of weirder things, but I didn't ever have a camera handy.

I have no explanation for this. It was June. I just dunno.

[TrogL]

26. A monument saying it had been built with leftover funds

...from building something else in England.

[Heidi]

27. Once, in San Diego, a seagull crapped on my ex-husband's head. (nt)

[proud2BlibKansan]

28. I am assuming that may have been a good thing?

:rofl:

[Heidi]

30. I don't wanna be mean-spirited BUT

that incident kinda showed him the down side of his long-held belief that he was the center of the universe. :7

[CreekDog]

41. EX-husband

:think: :rofl:

[crim son]

47. HA!

I went on a first date one time and a seagull did the same thing to my date. It was hilarious - totally decimated his cool, I'm-the-man attitude. :rofl:

[XemaSab]

53. Some birds, I think they shit on you accidentally

With gulls, I KNOW they do it on purpose. :o

[LSK]

32. almost stepped on a sting ray

Was walking in shallow water on the beach in FL and I came within a foot or 2 of him and we saw each at the same time and both of us bolted in opposite directions!

Also saw a dead baby shark on the beach.

Both happened on Siesta Key in Sarasota FL sometime in the 90s.

[proud2BlibKansan]

34. First time I went to Florida

We couldn't go to the beach the whole time we were there because it was covered with jelly fish.

[kwassa]

33. A white crane standing on horseback

Saw this a couple of weeks back on Assateague Island. The island has wild ponies, and this birds sit on their backs and eat flies and other bugs that bother the ponies. One of those symbiotic relationship thingies.

I tried to get a picture, but the crane jumped to the ground and made it rather ordinary.

[proud2BlibKansan]

35. That sounds like the neatest place

I have wanted to go there for years.

[XemaSab]

52. Sounds like a cattle egret

:D

[Left Is Write]

36. I feel kind of bad for the girl whose tag is sticking out of her bikini.

[LostinVA]

40. Haruka and I were in Sitka, AK a few weeks ago

They had Tsunami Escape Route road signs. We didn't get any pictures, because we didn't take the camera into town (we didn't want to get it wet sea kayaking).

[proud2BlibKansan]

44. Like this?

[LostinVA]

51. That's it

The tides alone there are apparently 30'.

[madeline_con]

42. No pics, but Tifton, GA Sept. 2004

We roll in, evacuating Hurricane Frances. We get to the main crossroads, and there's a triangular median in the middle. A cop car is parked, with cops in it. Their bags and cups from a burger place are sitting on the trunk of the car. I kept thinking, all these people from all over, and they have to make southerners look like stupid hicks. I was embarrassed, that really bothered me.

[hellbound-liberal]

45. I saw this at Yankee Stadium

The grounds crew doing YMCA

[crim son]

48. My pic is a slide, so I can't post it

but once in Corfu we were staying at a tiny little place. The nearest restaurant was a few yards away, across a field and a dirt road, and in the field lay a dead/decaying goat. Every time we went out for a salad or an Orangina we had to step over the dead goat. Nobody else seemed to notice.

[Mr. Blonde]

50. I have been in Nigeria all summer

safe to say, my top 10 strangest things I have seen is now full of new stuff. The weirdest and most widespread thing I have noticed is how many people "ease" themselves by the roadway. And not just #1, if they need to go #2 by God they do that too.

People stack about 25 into VW microbuses here, once stuck in a traffic jam I saw two people hop out of one and this lady started loosening her belt and as soon as she was off the roadway she squatted down and started using the restroom. While she was doing it traffic started moving so she had to go catch back up to her ride.

Sorry no pics.

[MichiganVote]

54. :) Kids washing up in the lakes happens all the time in Mi. proud. The shaving part is sorta rare.

[proud2BlibKansan]

55. That's what we thought was odd

If she had just washed her hair we wouldn't have thought it was so bizarre.

[MichiganVote]

56. Usually just the kids who live on lakes do that. But I've seen it at the lakeshore before. :)

[MichiganVote]

57. By the way, welcome to Michigan. Hope you enjoy your trip here.

[hellbound-liberal]

59. Look what I found in Michigan last summer!

I didn't see any morans though!

[MichiganVote]

61. Probably only allowed out on Sunday mornings for church.

[Taverner]

58. I have no picture for this but...

IN Bangkok, in one a guest house frequented by Peace Corps Volunteers, we were sitting in the cafe and it started the torrential downpour. This was common during this time of year. To understand monsoon rains, you really have to see it. 1 second outside and you are DRENCHED. It's also hot and sticky at the same time. Roads that never flood, are flooded, and the monsoon may or may not go away within 5 minutes of starting up. You just can't predict these guys.

Anyway, this German (oh Lord, why are they always GERMAN???) Tourist strips naked and goes out into the streets, and proceeds to take a shower. Everyone is looking at him and his gargantuan cock. I'm sorry, seeing a 12 inch cock on a Seventysomething is something you just can't NOT see. When he's done, he goes inside and drys off.

Sure, I could tell you much more tragic weird stories, but why?

This one is good enough :)