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​Tales of Travel, LifE, and Anxiety

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Chapter Seven: Lost

8/31/2020

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Your grandma always had a terrible sense of direction. She could get lost on an escalator.
Frederik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home

1997: Washington, D.C.
Josh's first trip back home from college


The elusive Union Station in Washington, D.C. I got lost driving from our
Virginia home to the train station to pick him up.
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​2006: Scandinavia


​I wanted to visit the Danish Jewish Museum, but I got lost.  I ran into a couple from my tour,
and my Jewdar ​told me that they were most likely heading in the same direction. 
​This is Carol and Bernie. 
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Above: The exterior of the museum,
​designed by Daniel Libeskind

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Right: The destabilizing interior 
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2010: International Tour Management Institute 


This is a blurry picture of me learning how to navigate using a map, an out-of-date skill. 
GPS apps are a directionally challenged person's safety net. 
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2011: Student Choir Trip to New York


After meeting a large group of students, parents, and chaperones at LaGuardia Airport,
​I led them around four levels of Terminal C in search of our buses. It was not one of my better moments. 
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The teacher called me "the tour escort from hell."
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2011 - 2016: Navigating the Streets of New York

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Throughout my student tours of New York, ​​HopStop helped me figure out how to get to a
destination on my walking tours.  Landmarks helped me get from one destination to the next. 
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Leading the choir students
​to St. John's Cathedral for a concert. 
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We had to pass Dunkin' Donuts.
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I knew to walk in the direction of Joe's Pizza to find Trinity Church and St. Paul's Cathedral.

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We arrived at St. Paul's Cathedral with
​just a couple of wrong turns. 


2011: Morocco


​Before we walked into the Medina, Hassan warned us to stay close, and to stay put if we got lost. 
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​I got sidetracked by a butcher and two cats. 
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2014: New Zealand


​I got terribly lost on a circular path through the Kahikatea Swamp along Ship Creek. 
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​I think it's easy to see why I became distracted while my travel buddies
​finished the trail and used the rest rooms.
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2015: Savannah


On a walking tour of Savannah, I decided to take a group to the Gothic Revival Synagogue, ​Mickve Israel. 
I made a wrong turn for half a block, and one angry guest went AWOL. 
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Forsyth Park

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Monterey Square:
I took the wrong turn on Gaston.
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Mickve Israel, one of the few Gothic Revival synagogues in the United States


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    CONTENTS

    Preface
    Chapter 1: Flying Foibles
    Chapter 2: Heights and
    ​     Enclosed Spaces

    Chapter 3: Falling
    Chapter 4: Men
    Chapter 5: Penises
    Chapter 6: Women
    Chapter 7: Lost
    Chapter 8: Pickpockets
    Chapter 9: Phantom
         Killers

    Chapter 10: Calamities
    Chapter 11: Crossing the
         Street

    Chapter 12: Illness
    Chapter 13: Toilets
    Chapter 14: Food
    Chapter 15: A Diagnosis
    Afterword
    ​The Tour Directors
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