One of the things I love about travel is all the amazing people you meet and how it expands the community of people you feel safe and protected by. I’m not sure if this is that travel brings out the best in people or if it is that you open yourself up more, and ask for help when you need it or possibly that when traveling those with you become your family for the trip. Whichever which way, the more I travel, the more White Knights I seem to acquire, and the more I appreciate all the goodness of character around me.
It is for this reason, that we are occasionally going to spotlight some of the White Knights in our travels. Below I mention a few of the White Knights of Travel that inspired this column.
The Husbands
Daniel Noll of Uncornered Market and Ralph Velasco (photographer extraordinaire) for jumping in as my husbands, when I needed one. You are two gentlemen I am proud to have on either arm.
The First Wife
Audrey Scott of Uncornered Market for happily accepting me as the second wife and keeping an eye out for when I might need one.
The Florence Nightingales
Jen Pollack Bianca of My Life’s A Trip and Audrey for being the kind of gals that I’d let in my room, when at my worst to ensure that I got fluids, didn’t dehydrate, and make sure I didn’t need a doctor.
The Big Brothers
Tharwat Abouraya and Jan Polatschek for regularly checking up on me to see that all was well (both before and after I got sick).
The Tech Hero
Michael Tieso of the Art of Backpacking who fine tuned our site and got it back up and running after a traffic spike and unstable server slammed us, along with the Spring Cold, so I couldn’t think straight.
Thanks Dan, Ralph, Audrey, Jen, Tharwat, Jan and Michael!
I am sure we’ll be sharing other White Knights of Travel, but in the meantime, we’d love to hear about your White Knights of Travel in the comments below.
Oh, Emme, I love this post. I love meeting strangers during travels who become friends (and even like family by the end of some trips). That’s why I love cruising. We’ve met some of the neatest people during them, many who, thanks to Facebook, we’ve continued friendships with online. So awesome you had such a nice bunch of people to help you through all the troubles you experienced. This post was such an awesome tribute to them.
Been tempted to do the Blues Cruise for that reason Courtney.
Glad to be of service, Erica. Good thing I had my camera bag with me to help fend off all the men looking to propose…to you, that is.
Love that you specified that the proposals were to me Ralph. Maybe if you showed a little more leg, you might have got one or two yourself. 😉
Lovely post. It’s reassuring to see that saying ‘thank you’ isn’t out of fashion. You certainly found some awesome White Knights although some are female. Are they then the White Ladies???
I don’t know, I think us gals can be knights to Inka. And the ladies I mentioned are pretty amazing and strong.
Unsung heroes!
Indeed!