Travel Mercies: A Feel-Good Story

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12 responses to “Travel Mercies: A Feel-Good Story”

Gwenn

February 24, 2020

Love knowing your way is paved with mercies. Seems you are finding a bumper crop! Awesome!

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1. ChezLouisDoris
  
  February 24, 2020
  
  Sometimes it takes seeing the glass as half-full, but that beats empty!
  
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Cynthia

February 24, 2020

You have made my day! In times that seem to be getting progressively darker, we need stories like these to brighten our spirits!

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1. ChezLouisDoris
  
  February 24, 2020
  
  They are out there, for sure, especially on the road, where the per-capita angel count seems especially high.
  
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Hermannet

February 24, 2020

Great stories!
It softens the memory of unavoidable losses while traveling.

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1. ChezLouisDoris
  
  February 24, 2020
  
  I bet you guys have had a few in both the loss and mercy departments.
  
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lajolla

February 24, 2020

Thank God someone other than me makes a habit of separating themselves from valuable personal items when traveling!

I’ve been the beneficiary of those travel mercies enough that I never give up hope now. Long ago in Turkey I made a strapped leather pouch for holding my passport. Years later at a high viewpoint in Portugal, I briefly took the pouch off to shed a sweater and forgot to strap it on again. I ran back about a mile when I discovered it missing, but alas, it was gone. After lunch I went with friends to the police station in the neighboring town to see if anyone had turned it in. No luck though. We left and started walking on side of the road when the occupants of an oncoming van swerved toward us with the occupants wildly pointing their fingers at me. Turns out they recognized me from my passport photo! They were going to turn it in to the police station and our timing could not have been more fortuitous.

Howie

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1. ChezLouisDoris
  
  February 24, 2020
  
  This is a wonderful story, Howie, and such a perfect example of a travel mercy. Thanks for sharing – and congrats on recovering the pouch. This reminds me of a time when Natalie had her backpack stolen off the overhead rack on a train en route to Amsterdam. She only discovered it was missing upon arrival. She went straight to lost and found but no luck. Then, leaving lost and found to depart the train station, she saw a rail employee walking toward her with it in their hands! It had been left after rifling on a different inbound train and just been recovered. The only thing missing was a bag of potato chips.
  
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ChezLouisDoris

February 24, 2020

A great compliment from a singer, Carolyn.

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Carolyn Connell

February 23, 2020

Oh these travel mercies made my heart sing!!!

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Karen

February 23, 2020

What a very fun and interesting Partout today! It led my memory down the road of my many travel mercies. And the angels who appeared. Just last November I left my Costco credit card in a transport van from USCF Children’s Hospital to the subway stop. I was in a rush, trying to get to the SF airport. When I returned to Oakland two weeks later after, strangely, not canceling my card but keeping vigil, at the end of that visit we again preyed upon the free transit for patients at the hospital and took a van. The same driver, a new employee from Eritrea, recognized me and said, “did you find your credit card?’ I hadn’t considered the van even once. Instead, I had been sure the card would be somewhere in my friend’s guest room. So we retrieved the card. I don’t know how she recognized me. Maybe because I had tipped her and chatted a little bit?
Anyway, fabulous post! Great photos! Thanks. Snowing here right this minute, Doris.

karen

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1. ChezLouisDoris
  
  February 24, 2020
  
  What a beautiful story, Karen. We hoped people would share their own travel mercies and I KNEW you would have plenty! Thanks for sharing.
  
  Anyone else?
  
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