Such a reminder of just how rich we are when traveling. I was trying to explain to a man who was driving me around in Bali that I really didn't have much money as far as American's go, but it seemed such a dumb thing to say when his own daughter had never even been to the ocean (only a few miles away) because they lived in such poverty. I offered we pick her up the next day and he was very excited, but in the end she refused because she had a big test in school.
The woman cleaning our "home-stay," had lost an eye in a scooter accident and just never got it fixed. She was in her forties and it'd happened when she was 8. You never see that here in the states.
At the same time, poverty is definitely increasing here in the states :(
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I agree......it's the only time I have been out of the States but I had told my son I wanted to see how he really lived and I did get to see it.
There was not a tourist place in site.......but it really opened your eyes up to how a lot of the world lives. Personally, I think in some ways better then we do and others not so much.......
Thank you for sharing your story and stopping to read mine!