u/Late-Style4892
▲ 16 r/TravelMaps
Google Photos heat map
This is a Google Photos heat map—the colored areas are where I have taken photos. I’ve travelled quite a bit through the US southwest desert. It’s my favorite place! A couple of these are airports/flybys and I flew to Florida and Puerto Rico vacations, but mostly road trips. I love this feature! Unfortunately, I don’t have photos taken before Google Photos, like a trip to Canada, but I have been to BC as well. Wish I had more $$, I’d road trip more.
u/Late-Style4892 — 2 months ago
Found my hallway table like this. The suspected culprit was a homeless woman who adopted our apartment building as her home base
This happened a few years ago. There was a homeless woman who used to hang around our building, she had a shopping cart and everything. Her dealer lived in one of the units across the hall from me, and they’d constantly fight. He’d kick her out, she’d be back an hour later.
Eventually he moved and with nowhere else to go, she kind of latched onto our floor. Knocking on our door at all hours, yelling outside windows at 3am. I had to call the cops a few times, which always felt awful because she was genuinely sweet when we talked to her. She just needed way more help than any of us could give her.
One day I stepped out my front door and found my little wooden table had been turned into her personal manifesto. There are directions, names, a mention of city jail, something about buying a house, and a very passionate “fuck you” at the bottom.
I couldn’t even be that mad. Mostly just sad. But also… that was my table!
THE FOOT IN THE PICTURE IS A CHILD’S
u/Artillery_Jay — 2 months ago
▲ 36 r/HighStrangeness
My boyfriend and I took a big road trip for our anniversary and his birthday in 2024, about 5,000 miles round trip from Washington state through the southwest and back. We’d been planning it forever and were really excited to finally do it.
We left Washington, stayed a night in Riggins, Idaho on the Salmon river, and the next day we headed toward Utah. On the way, we stopped in Ketchum, Idaho at a Veltex convenience store.
Nothing unusual about the place. Just a normal convenience store. There was one other guy quietly walking around shopping when we went in. We grabbed waters and snacks and went up to the counter.
Out of nowhere, the cashier, who seemed like the sweetest person, looks at my boyfriend and says, “happy birthday!!”. There was no conversation before this besides the normal cashier/customer greetings.
We both just froze for a second and looked at each other like… did that happen? We hadn’t said anything about his birthday. Didn’t show IDs. Didn’t have a real conversation beyond the basics. He wasn’t wearing anything birthday-related either. I was the one who paid with my debit card.
We even looked behind us to see if she was talking to the other guy in the store, but she was clearly looking right at my boyfriend. She made direct eye contact with him.
We were so thrown off we barely reacted in the moment. Just paid and left. She had this kind of knowing smile but didn’t explain anything or say anything else.
Once we got outside we were like… wtf how did she know?? We went through the list of things I wrote before. She didn’t see our IDs, we didn’t talk about birthdays, etc. It felt extremely surreal. We ended up half-joking, half-serious deciding she must’ve been psychic or intuitive or something.
It didn’t feel creepy though. It felt like a good omen for the start of the trip.
Has anyone else had something like this happen?
TL;DR: Stopped at a random convenience store on a road trip, and the cashier wished my boyfriend happy birthday even though we never said anything, showed IDs, or gave any clue. She was clearly talking to him. Felt surreal and kind of like a good omen. Still can’t explain how she knew.
u/Late-Style4892 — 2 months ago