A local Local Guide guiding a Local Guide [Recap] #LGsummit2017 - Part 1

Monday, October 9, my alarm setting is to 4 am. At 3:30 I’m already awake, I can’t sleep. Everything is ready, packed in my luggage, Visa, passport, ticket, camera, already in a pocket of my backpack. Waiting, waiting for the alarm to ring, waiting for the life to start. My cats are watching, quite surprised to see me already up. Waiting, with nothing to do. Ok, go to Connect man, for welcoming some new members, and reply to the people from east, where is already morning, life, activity.

Waiting. Ok, it is 3:55, let’s prepare the coffe, and go to wake up @AntonellaGr , my wife, my alter ego. Switch the alarm off , i don’t need it.

The smell of the coffe is in the air, now. Well, my LGSummit17 adventure starts now.

At 5am I am at the Venice Airport, to drop my luggage. All shops are closed, there is only one bar opened, I need more caffeine, the journey will be very long.

8:30, in Frankfurt now, passing the queue for the passport control, then I’m in, no more barriers between me and the States. My flight will start in 90 minutes.

Mapping in the airport is funny and relaxing and, you can believe it or not, some place is missing :slightly_smiling_face:

10:00 - Flying now - It is quite strange to fly west, following the sun, in a never ending day.

Passing over Iceland

Landing in San Francisco at 2:00 PM (midnight for my body) of a sunny day, and passed the immigration control, I had my first nice experience:

At the airport’s BART, I was trying to understand how to manage it, when a girl came out of the station, smiling. Take mine, I don’t need it, I’m leaving now. She dropped a ticket in my hand, and entered in the airport with a smile.
This was my first present from the Summit.

My hotel was beautiful, minutes to Union square, a nice place to spend a few hours, waiting for a reasonable time for having a dinner, fighting with my internal watch, that was screaming, claiming that it was already 1:00 am.

Ring, my phone is giving me a message. And my guided tour, with a wonderful local Local Guide started.

I’ve been helped, guided, from my very first step in USA, carefully protected. Well, this is a private message, but I know tha most of you, the 150, had a similar experience.

If in some day, in some future moment, Google want to invent a “best local Local Guide Award”, I want to be the one that say … “and the winner is …

I want to give it with my hands, a big golden PIN, rising it, … “and the winner is …

Union square is nice to take photos …

Yes it is, Is a very inspiring place

with a lot of places around, there and down to Market, for interesting shopping.

But the subject that captured my eyes was the square at sunset, with the shadow covering everything in dark, with the top of the buildings lighted by the sun

blades of light, reverberation of light, passing through the buildings, using the windows reflection to move the light down to the canyons

Ok, do shopping, even if my body is claiming a bed, then …

k2.JPG… “and the winner is …

I was just passing in front of Sears, it was perfect, barely understanding what was the dinner. I’ve only putted a finger over the menu. “This one”. “with smashed potatoes?”, “yes, please”

before 9 pm I was sleeping, dead body in a huge double bed, my alarm set at 7:30

3:30, my body is knocking on my head, telling me that is already lunch time

6:30 I’m up, having a shower. Today is the day, a long long day that drive me to the Summit. Maps say: “30 minutes walking, from Union square to Hyatt”

I have time, I can go and have breakfast and, going out …

Oh My God, Sunrise was unexpected, breathtaking, a Golden sunrise.

Now, it’s time to go, the long way is in front of me, let’s climb, now…

… “and the winner is …

back to the index

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Ermes! Waiting the other 99 parts!!! :smiley:

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Oh no, @LucioV , next will be very very short. Just [NDA] than [NDA], than [NDA]

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The option is to have 150 parts @LucioV . You can choose

Ermes

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I will read also 1000 parts, Ermes! :slight_smile:

BTW, you know that i climbed the Russian Hill with the 7 mt RV? :smiley:

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Ok @LucioV , that’s clear, you were a tourist in there. Nobody want to do it, only tourists does

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@ErmesT wrote:

The option is to have 150 parts @LucioV . You can choose

Ermes


We are Local Guides, we just want more!

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Muy buena historia @ErmesT , me encanta si la vas a seriar :writing_hand: la voy a publicar en la Comunidad para que otros la vean día a día me encanta :+1::grinning:

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@ErmesT this is a very entertaining post. I’m glad you had fun and manage your way around.

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Woow @ErmesT !! I loved it!!!

Waiting for the other parts :smiley:

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Haha @SarahKa

@JulienH

Thank you.

For sure you will have some more episodes, @FaridTDF

The point is: many of us had similar experiences so, why don’t start a series of “guided by a local guide” stories?

I’m thinking to @AlejandraMaria

Just to say one. Alejandra, want to?

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Great idea @ErmesT :clap::clap::clap:.

I have got second part on my mind. :blush::grin:. Just after work I will post it.

What do you have on mind, continue with the new parts in this thread or each part in one new?

Good Morning from the South of Spain!

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Thank you very much @ErmesT . All photos are very beautiful. Yes it was “Best Summit Ever”

Now I am waiting for the next Summit “LGSummit18”

Keep me in your prayers & Thanks Again … :slight_smile:

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Hi @AlejandraMaria

My first idea was to have only one thread, but I think it will be difficult to read, with a lot of replies in the middle. Let’s start a new one, and inform me when you post it. Then I will make a post with an index page, to link all the post in the first page. So we will have all contributions listed and easy to find.

What do you think?

@KarenVChin

Are you part of this?

Ermes

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@ErmesT I have seen so many photos that I was almost there with you at the Summit! I am getting ready for my application for 2018. Hopefully we don’t need a video next year? You know that I am not so good at video making :frowning: In any case I am improving!

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Dear @ErmesT ,

Here we have part 2 :

https://www.localguidesconnect.com/t5/Let-s-Meet-Up/A-local-Local-Guide-guiding-a-Local-Guide-Recap-LGsummit2017/m-p/513587#M37888

And part 3 will be for @SarahKa !!!

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I like the series idea very very creative :grin::+1::grin::+1::grin:

An still living the atmosphere :grin::grin::grin:

@ErmesT :grin::grin::grin:

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It will take time @OSAMA

Stay tuned.

And try to imagine…

… And the winner is…

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Yeah I am Tuned :blush::grin::tada:

Part two @AlejandraMaria

Part three @SarahKa :grin::+1::grin::+1::grin:


@AlejandraMaria wrote:

Dear @ErmesT ,

Here we have part 2 :

https://www.localguidesconnect.com/t5/Let-s-Meet-Up/A-local-Local-Guide-guiding-a-Local-Guide-Recap-LGsummit2017/m-p/513587#M37888

And part 3 will be for @SarahKa !!!


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Hi @ErmesT thank you for your first episode (E01) of the LG recap S01 series:) I liked that timetable-like story telling of yours.

mine was quite similar: surprised cat around 4am, early morning flight - nothing was open, my body was suffering due the jet lag (I am from the same time zone as you), took the bart, etc:)

now I am going to check the S01E02 from @AlejandraMaria :slight_smile:

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