*If you haven't read http://girlworldvsreality.blogspot.com/2012/03/if-i-go-alone-cannibals-will-eat-me.html read first*
So
cool, last time we all realized that when traveling, that no matter where we
are or where we go, we live in a world made up of human beings with feelings
and emotions. Sure there are a few bad
eggs here and there, but in general people will pick up on your signals and
help you out, you just have to be willing to make those first moves towards
saying no. Of course, no one is going to
make a movie about the girl who got away, only the girl who fell for the trap.
But
wait what about Hostel? People had asked you about that one two, and
well, those guys were taken right out of their beds. They weren’t even travelling alone. They were
in a group of GUYS!!! I’m a girl all alone! If a guy falls for that, how am I
supposed to be on my A game enough to not have that happen to me without using
a private investigator? Well first of
all let’s remind ourselves that it just a movie. While some hostels can be sketchy, most of
them aren’t secretly operating as a way to collect people to be tortured and if
they are they are probably being shut down by local authorities.
In
our modern age, booking websites provide endless supplies of feedback on
hostels so you can actually feel them out before you book. I mean if hotels and hostels are operating
under a false front in order to collect people to enslave, and you happen to
book there even after researching it and getting a pretty good vibe, I’m sorry
but that is called really bad luck. Of
course, so is having a pedophile move in across the street when you were six
years old and you hadn’t even left the house at that point. Sadly, I can’t sit here and say that bad
things don’t happen in the world, because they happen everywhere. However, I can say that they happen everywhere
and you are pretty much as safe abroad as you are at home.
Sure,
stories of fatal adventures pop up in our newspapers and create a panic against
travel. However, over 32 million single
American women traveled in 2010, and made up 65% of people going on cultural
adventure tours. In fact in the past 6
years the single woman travel business has grown by 230%. If all of them were being raped, murdered,
and kidnapped abroad, not only would this number no longer be existent, but
those news stories wouldn’t be news stories at all it would just be what
happened when you are stupid enough to leave your front porch. Think about it how many car crashes make the
front page of the Wall Street Journal.
In all my time of reading that particular paper I have seen none. However, I have seen enough plane crashes to
make me never want to look at a plane again.
Funny thing is, you are 12 times more likely to die in a car crash than a
plane crash.
People
are funny that way, when I first decided to Virginia Tech, just after the April
16th shootings, people constantly said “Don’t get shot.” I lived less than five miles from Baltimore
City (and actually went to school in the city) and moving was to a place where
in the past 100 years there were two incidents of people getting shot, one in
the early 1900’s and the other on April 16th 2007. Blacksburg is still one of the safest places
in America and Baltimore is one of the most dangerous, but because every petty
crime is a shock in Blacksburg, it becomes a big story which is scary and
shocking to those on the outside.
So,
just remember to travel safe girls and live smart.
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