abi
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abi
Hi! Welcome to my travel blog! ^_^
This is where you can keep updated on where in the world i am and what im up to [😊
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Very much looking forward to exploring new lands, meeting new people and experiencing different cultures,food and environments.
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For most of you that know me, this trip has been in the planning pretty much since i left school. My original plan was to leave secondary school and take a gap year exploring the world before going onto college. it didnt quite happen that way, instead your pushed into making life-changing decisions before your old enough to be allowed to choose lottery numbers and things just seem to snowball from there.
I guess the assumed path after finishing university is to get straight on the career ladder and not look back. But i didnt go to uni for that, and i didnt leave with that intention..
Instead, i left disillusioned about the industry i was 'educated' to go into and more determined to try and get out of the system with just my life on my back to see new places and meet new people. Along the road to doing this, ive met some lovely people and great friendships i've had have evolved into something entirely more valuable.
My reasons for traveling can be poetically illustrated far greater by masters of words than i could hope to do, so ill leave with some quotes that effortlessly conclude 😊
Alot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician suddenly pulls a rabbit out of a hat which has just been shown to be empty.
In the case of the rabbit, we know the magician has tricked us. What we would like to know is just how he did it.
But when it comes to the world its somewhat different.
We know that the world is not all sleight of hand and deception because here we are in it,we are apart of it. The only different between us and the white rabbit is that the rabbit does not realize it is taking part in a magic trick. Unlike us.
We feel we are part of something mysterious and we would like to know how it all works -Gaarder
We travel,initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel next,to find ourselves.
We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspaper will accommodate.
We travel to bring what little we can,in our ignorance and knowledge,to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in,and fall in love once more. - Pico Lyer