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Show TE The Salt Lake Tribune TRAVEL Sunday, December3, 2000 Don’t Rely on Kindnessof Strangers, WHERE ARE YOU? But Good Samaritans Are Out There BY SUSAN SPANO Travel makes you vulnerable.It road by thieves. Destitute and half-dead, he is ignored by two idea of an English angelperfectly, melted back into the crowd before go wrong, that vulnerability can passersby. But a third man stops, they could thank her. The experience is fixed in Susan’s memory mean disaster, particularlyif you are a woman alone. You can get stranded in your car on the high- way,lost in a foreigncity or dehydrated on a desert hike. And even smaller, less dramatic problems like losing your wallet can trouble on the road. Forinstance, I forgot to pack my in holy books andfairy tales. But I've heard too manystories about travelers saved by passersbynot to get along without them (though not only a fool leaves home counting on the kindnessofstrangers. ours. OLS E A cynic would say that something like this could happen only believe in good Samaritans. The idea eases my mind and sets me amined my eyes and made me a newpair ofglassesin less than two ©2000, The H.M. Gousha Co. binds his wounds, takes him to an inn and resumes his own journey, apparently needing no thanks or recognition for his good deed. glasses for a recent trip to Germany and realized it only when I boarded the plane. I thoughtI could easily) because I. wear contacts. But whenI reached thelittle town. of Gelnhausen, 20 miles northeast of Frankfurt, I stopped at an optician’s shop, where the owner ex- A medieval castle stands guard overthe town of Voguein the Ardecheregion of this country, which boasts a string of other impressive castles. But whereisit? Still stumped? The map, below, contains the answer. While youareatit, namethe U.S. state. ee answers on H-3). black shoes tapped Susan on the arm and pointed down at the passports. The woman, whofit Susan’s and adventures, but when things opensyou up to new people, places In Vogue hair in a bun and wearing sensible HER WORLD LOS ANGELES TIMES free to travel, even though I know The kindness of good Samari- almostasfirmlyas herfirst sight of Trafalgar Square or Westminster. Sometimes, ; it’s. those little things that make you feel lucky. Once, as author and traveler Marybeth Bondstood waiting for a busin Sri Lanka,a fellow in a bat- saved my brother John and mein the mountains ofnorthern Baja after our car got stuck on a dirt road. After Evelyn Hannon, editor of Journeywoman, an online travel way in London when Susan un- seriously that I think of him as a good Samaritan. It seems perfect to me that the worst thing in the world,butit can ruin a vacation. While they waited for their stop, a woman with her should give trouble, which is why I can't con- demn the two men whopassed by the beleaguered travelerin the Bible’s good Samaritan story. Nevertheless, while traveling,I still hold doors open for women with strollers and help older passengers stow carry-on bags in airBut these seem small gestures, considering how much good Sa- good deed. : knowingly dropped their passports. A lost passport isn’t the cide whether you money to a beggar or think fast enough when you see someone in planes’ overhead compartments. Sarah, were traveling on the sub- You could say he was just doing excursion to see Gruyere cheese being made in the mountains. The next day, as she prepared to leave, her host wouldn't accept a penny. Travelers who have received assistance often try to return thefavor. But sometimes it’s hard to de- pulled overandtold her she wasn’t ata busstop. Two Mexicansin a Land Rover We spent a long, cold night won- his job. But he took so much time also let her join his family on an tered station wagon full of kids tans is almost alwaysdisinterested, which makesthe help they give even more astonishing. Several summers ago, Susan Klein, my sister-in-law, and her daughter, with me andtreated my problem so Switzerland, she stopped ata store to ask about accommodations at a farm. The proprietor called a friend, who notonly took herin but dering what we would do, when these two Samaritans happened along. Theypulled the car out and wouldn’t accept money for their magazine for women,disefhbarked from a train in Gruyeres, maritans have done for me. As a solo traveler, I can help others, if only in a limited fashion,and trust the people who want to help me, though only to a certain extent, because one mustn't be too vulnerable. But wheredo you draw the line in Naples and Bangkok? How do you know a good Samaritan when you see one? And how do you be one? T'll need to travel many more miles to know. biblical story of the good Samaritan, from the GospelofSt. Luke,is about a traveler, waylaid on the AMAZING LOW FARES!!! 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