Since this is a travel journal website, I will state the obvious - that I absolutely love to travel. I finally moved out my hometown and living in a different city and finishing up my last year in school. Since I moved out from my childhood home beginning of 2006, for the first time I traveled to Europe on my own for a week - with no help from my family. However, I did got a little help from my uncle who is stationed at Belgium who paid for half of my plane ticket, otherwise I visited them for a few days and went off on my own primarily by train to Switzerland and France. Even if it was a short period of travel, I've learned and have grown a lot since then and I finally got to do what I loved - TRAVEL. The beginning of this year, I had the opportunity to study abroad for 2 weeks in Thailand. Hopefully, I can keep doing this at least once a year; it doesn't have to be a far away one, it could even be a road trip to the next state. Who knows? I also love snowboarding, bodyboarding, sailing, camping, and hiking. I want to explore and experience everything as much as I can while I'm young.

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