Romantic Super-Short Travel Stories

Sailing off Mallorca with hubby. Boat capsizes. Stuck for 5 hrs in water. Profess our love. "We’ve had a great life." Boat! Saved. #TLStory —@csedlak1

Pictured: Boats docked (safely), Mallorca.

Getting a nighttime locals-only tour of Trastevere from my hotel's flirty young concierge #TLStory —@ahodgin

Pictured: The Trastevere neighborhood by night.

#TLStory in Hawaii for work. Flew wife on miles. Watched sunrise from Hanauma bay. Super surf on north shore. Garlic shrimp.Dinner Waikiki —@Jennas_Dad

Pictured: Hanauma Bay.

Rural Argentina; flooded cliff-edge road. My husband drives beside abyss—I open door to abandon ship. Discovered: love's limit. #TLStory —@afarles

Pictured: Cuesta del Obispo (ruta 33), Argentina.

Woke up to Bora Bora sunrise illuminating the overwater bungalow, smiled at my new husband...honeymoon bliss. #TLStory —@LindseyDGil

Pictured: Another beautiful sunrise, Bora Bora.

Hiking boot soles detached five steps in to VT Green Mtn trail. Husband + duct tape = happy camper with walkable footwear. #TLStory —@AJDies

Pictured: Camel's Hump, Vermont’s Green Mountains.

Arrive in MXP. Cute Italian guy approaches me, speaking Italian. I don't understand him. He plants kiss on me. Best welcoming ever. #TLStory —@_Pheeohnuh_

Pictured: Malpensa International Airport (MXP), Milan.

400-ft. waterfall. Dolphin kisses. Volcano sunrise. Road to Hana. Geckos indoors. Amazingly clear water. Hawaiian honeymoon. #TLStory —@elizabeth2004

Pictured: Aerial view of the road to Hana, Maui.

Celebrating ten year anniversary in Spain. Visiting the Camp Nou on the 50th Anniversary of the stadium. Messi scores two!!!!! #TLStory —@Migeluch

Pictured: An FC Barcelona match at Camp Nou, Barcelona.

#TLStory Cafe in Istanbul. Friendly chatting with owner. Offers my husband €25k for me. He refused. We're still married. —@farbav

Pictured: One of countless sidewalk cafés in Istanbul.

He had me at Hello. Or maybe it was Good Morning. Could have been, Are you serving breakfast on this flight? Uh...yes, yes, YES #TLStory —@Heather_Poole (flight attendant)

Pictured: A blissfully uncrowded flight.

#TLStory Newlyweds, we climbed Kilimanjaro. Husband’s knee collapsed & I carried his pack down 18,000+ ft. 16 years later: Still married —@katebetts

Pictured: Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania.

"You dance like a Cuban girl" whispered through a heavy accent. Rum tobacco sweat, thick in humid air. Music, slow, sad. Close. #TLStory —@NomadOnTheMove

Pictured: A night club, Havana, Cuba.

On a plane to Vegas for an Elvis-attended friend's wedding, I sit next to a woman who a month later sets me up with a boyfriend. #TLStory —@KellyTravels

Pictured: Chapel of the Bells, Las Vegas.

#TLStory my husband proposed early one morning while we were watching the sunrise on our gullet cruise around Turkey —@kerritheaker

Pictured: Kerri Theaker with her fiancé, Turkey.

Sailing into #Venice on your 10th anniversary, knowing you just made your wife's dream of visiting this amazing city come true! #TLStory —@Tripcity_CH

Pictured: Rialto Bridge on Venice’s Grand Canal.

Walking on the bottom of the ocean floor, feeding fish in Bora Bora while on our honeymoon aboard @PaulGauguin cruises #TLStory —@lori_gold

Pictured: A Paul Gauguin cruise ship, Bora Bora.

Armisen in Odysseus outfit solicits me before sirens seduce w/ "No Scrubs." Then, @ SNL, I'm stared down. It’s Usain Bolt. #TLStory —@mindypeanuts

Pictured: NBC Studios, where Saturday Night Live is taped before a studio audience.

Wrapped under a duvet with hubby watching sunrise over Moroccan Sahara sand dunes. A camel ride later to see sunset from a dune top. #TLStory —@OurTour_co_uk

Pictured: Desert dunes, Morocco.

#TLStory The Seine with my lover, eating fresh strawberries with creme on Pont-Neuf, 1979; later, first taste of Orangina on Champs-Élysées. —@rrple

Pictured: The Seine riverfront, Paris.

Went to #SouthAfrica on a whim to find myself, found love instead. #sappytweet #outofcharacter #buttotallytrue #TLStory —@BySarahKhan

Pictured: Sarah Khan and her now-fiancé, Cape Town.

A night on a private junk boat, Ha Long Bay #Vietnam, My husband, No tourists, Balmy weather, Full moon, Rosé, Music, Breathtaking. #TLStory —@LK_inLA

Pictured: Ha Long Bay, Vietnam.

Spending Christmas Eve with the hubby on #Aitutaki, Cook Islands, dancing with the locals! #TLStory —@valeriegarcia1

Pictured: Polynesian Dance Show at the Aitutaki Beach Resort and Spa, Cook Islands.

In Istanbul, an autistic girl stood up from table next to mine, come towards me, kiss me on both cheeks and went back to her table. #TLStory —@goshimish

Pictured: Mangerie restaurant, Istanbul.

#TLStory Venice '06: family at hotel invited us to go on midnight gondola ride. Their son played violin. Full moon, clear night. Perfection! —@OhBootsy

Pictured: Evening gondola traffic, Venice.

Me: Where does this road go? He: Where do you wanna go? Me: You tell me... (And he travelled happily ever after) #TLStory —@anuragamuffin

Pictured: A rural European road.