Last autumn my parter and I pulled up to a free camping area in Colorada ran buy the USDA. At some point we heard a lot of sheep bleeting and stepped outside to see 5 people and 3 dogs hearding a large flock of sheep down a mountain across the highway. We grabbed a few beers and a joint and spent the next 4 hours outside watching these sheep get rounded up into a pen in the Campground we were at. This was especially fun because we have a hearding dog of our own and watching these working dogs control hundreds of sheep with minimal input from the sheppards was pretty incredible. Our dog sat and watched with us and was absolutely enamored by the sheep. After the sheep were all penned he was able to go over and say hi to the other dogs. That evening we were on our final bathroom walk of the evening when we got approached by a great perinaise who gave us a check out and then walked back to the pen fence and layed back down. What a good guard dog.

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.

My husband and I went to Noord Holland in the Netherlands last year. We had a room in a private house. The owner was this nice old couple. They helped us rent bikes at a local bike shop and we just went everywhere on bike. Every day an hour or two just following the coastline, nothing but the sea, the shore and the sails of the boats in the distance.

We also went to a hat museum. It was a private museum - basically an old woman who’se been collecting and making hats her entire life. A whole room full of hats from all over the world and she could tell you all about them, how they are made, the cultural signifance etc. Her husband made us tea while we sat there and listened.