When you tell a story make the audience feel it. Describe Visual, Auditory, Feel, Smell. "If you had been there that day you would have seen me leaning against the boat railing with the cool spray of the waves splashing on my face and the smell of the ocean and you would have heard my daughter say, 'Daddy' when we get to Mexico I want to eat a burrito."" It doesn't take a lot of cues to make your audience feel like they were there with you.