I’ve been doing some backpacking for the past year. I’ve had a lot of really interesting experiences, this still makes the list of some of my favourite stories.
A big group of us from the hostel decided to go out for drinks one night, and we ended up running into another big group with some mutual friends at one of the bars. We all got a table together and starting mingling as the drinks started flowing a little more freely. I started talking to this one guy, Carson, because someone had told me he was also Canadian. He was cute. Boyish, but cute. We hit it off really well but I didn’t think anything of it as it was still a pretty big gathering and most of us were still interacting in the group. The night pushed on as we went to bar after bar, until people started to drop off, either getting too drunk or tired. We headed back to the hostel, but soon after getting there Carson and I quickly decided our night wasn’t over and headed back out into the night. We went to this cheesy western bar, grabbed a couple more beers, and pulled up some seats next to the ring with the mechanical bull. At this point the flirting started getting heavier. We started trying to push each-other off of our stools and by some mistake, he figured out I was ticklish. It was some highschool level shit but I was a little drunk and enjoying the attention. Eventually we decided to go up and grab another round, where we got caught in the most boner-killing, vagina-drying conversation about Boris Johnson with some random English guy. He must have been absolutely hammered because he didn’t seem to notice the fact that mine in Carson’s hands were slowly linking with each others on the top of the table we were leaning on. I instantly stopped listening to whatever the fuck guy was saying. Soon it was just watching lips flap in the wind as I focused on the feeling of Carson’s thumb caressing my hand. Eventually I couldn’t take it anymore.