Sunday, August 01, 2010

Strange tourists i have met in California on vacation,,,

First, there were the two women from 'russia' who talked the whole 12 hour tour in the front seats of the tour bus by the driver and microphone.  Isn't that right out of the Dirty Corporate Tricks and Other Unethical Behaviors Handbook ?  What business competitor would not do that.


And the 20-something rich princess from a SF Nob Hill  expensive hotel who got on a big tour bus and kept on,,, and kept on,,, telling the 'tour' talking driver ,,," i partied so hard last night i need to sleep so please NO MORE TALKING",,,on a tour bus?!


And three women who were 75 minutes late getting back to the tour bus in Yosemite Valley.


And the rich middle aged guy in the expensive fancy clothes with the silk neck scarf, from 'Spain',with his family in the front of the bus who grabbed the steering wheel of a moving 45' bus on highway 120 outside Yosemite National Park,,, of a moving 45' bus,,, and tried to turn it around,,,a moving bus with many tourists on it.  And the CHP would not come out to talk to this dangerous foreign-passport tourist with "you have left the scene and area of the incident".


And the Greek tour guide with 'his' 10 Greek tour passengers on a 55 passenger full bus of various other countries and various other hotel guests out of SF ,who kept telling the driver of the tour bus "my people are jet-lagged from the flight yesterday and need to sleep today SO NO TALKING !!" on a all day tour bus.


And the family that runs an expensive private charter yacht out of the West Coast who think it is the high-paying guests who have to suffer the daily loud and rude verbals attacks of the son, in public, against the father-captain of the large luxury yacht. 


And the Japanese tour guide out of an L.A. Japanese travel agency using a S.F. japanese bus company who for years told well dressed Japanese visitors on tour buses to Yosemite National Park that "there is gold in the steams here" just to secretly laugh and watch the Japanese tourists run into a park stream with their expensive shoes on with 'gold fever' to search for yellow or shiny specks.  Taking many many rocks out of the park.  And the S.F. japanese tour bus company was aware of this constant insult to foreign Japanese visitors.


And the old guy with the last wish to die in Muir Woods who had his whole large family on the regular SF to Muir Woods minibus, with a hidden bottle of oxygen. He stopped breathing when we got to the parking lot in Muir Woods and the driver asked if there were any nurses or doctors on board. Two nurses and a doctor, of 37 passengers , put him horizontal on the back seat and gave him an exam and established an airway. The driver called "911" and the ranger ran out, a fire truck from Sausalito showed up with siren and lights, and another emergency vehicle with sirens and lights showed up, an ambulance.  The old guy was taken to San Rafael city's hospital with his large family and the last word was he lived.


And the 3 screaming babies on the Carmel tour bus, returning to SF in 2 hours, who screamed bloody murder the whole way.  For 2 solid hours. One was up front with the mother and the old grandmother who kept saying to these high pitched operatic constant screams, "oh, isn't he the cutest".  There was another screaming child and his/her incompetent parents in the middle and,,,another screaming child and his incompetent parents in the back.  No pacifiers cuz "oh, we don't believe in them".  Isn't there some way to fine the incompetent parents,,,after an hour,,,not 2 full hours ??  Especially on airplanes.