I actually just thought of a few others from a vacation I went on!
7 of Swords + the Moon: Got these as a card of the day TWICE during a trip to Paris. Both days I got scammed by con artists, one near the Louvre and another near the Notre Dame
3 of Swords: When I asked what my trip to Paris was going to be like. I guess I was "heartbroken" that it wasn't the romantic paradise I thought it would be. It was a great trip, I learned a lot, but ultimately I realized that it wasn't the overly Romantic Paris of Fitzgerald. Rather it was the Paris of Victor Hugo: it had beauty to redeem it and thousands of fascinating stories in its alleyways and a rich history, but it had just as much pain and misery in its streets. Beggars, and con-men, etc.,
5 of Cups+Judgment+King of Cups: I took a day trip to Omaha Beach and I CRIED, and mind you I'm not a particularly emotional individual. Barely cry in private, much less in public. But here, I cried at the chapel in the American Cemetery. Very brazenly and very publicly. I had always known we paid a great price in WWII, but I guess seeing all the crosses and Stars of David really did me in. I guess it was something that never really hit me as hard until I had to visualize the true price of the freedom the allies paid. I thought about how spoiled I was a kid to whine about civics class. I didn't realize then how much of a privilege it was to whine about learning about the constitution when in 1944 men were actively dying for the ideals detailed within it. And I just felt sad for the lives destroyed- both on the battlefield and for the people who lost a husband or a son a friend or a lover on those fields. It was just a HUGE wake up call to me on an empathetic level. As a history major I KNEW the cost in terms of facts and figures, but I never FELT it, if that makes sense?
Knight of Cups + the World +Wheel of Fortune: My trip to Bavaria. God, I loved Germany. It the alps, the castles, the forests... they felt like a fairy tale and I felt like I didn't matter at all- rather that the only thing that mattered were my surroundings and I was happy to just passively exist at that moment. I also came up with new story ideas around that time.
10 of Pentacles: Reached my final destination- Vienna. I stayed with a friend who lived there and she and her husband took care of me like a child- offered REAL FOOD (I'd been living off potato chips, coffee, and train station subs by that point), and let me stay in their home for a few days.
Knight of Wands Rx: had a flight delay on my way back to the states and had to stay in Iceland for 24 hours
5 of Pentacles: the hellish cold I caught the day after I got back. I was bedridden for two days from how hard I was adventuring, I guess! Also I was broke AF, lost my debit card my last day in Vienna, and I had to take days off work from the cold I got. Worth it though.
