Every traveler embarks on a trip with certain intentions. The fitting answer “I just want to get away” is not where I’m at. Here are a few of my ideas:
#1 How: plane, train, bus, bicycle, scooter, motorcycle, freighter, speedboat, tall ship, walking, running, rollerskating (seriously, I have them!), hiking.
#2 Learn new languages.
#3 Live out of one bag for 6 months straight.
#4 Stay in shape. Have you ever seen a backpacker wheezing for dear life?
#5 Meet ordinary women in every country I visit and feature them on this site.
#6 Not rushing. Traveling slow and steady to absorb all my surroundings.
#7 Throwing away the guidebook and seeing what happens.
#8 Use a camera as my eye. I have a nasty habit of experiencing a moment instead of capturing it.
#9 Celebrating Christmas or New Year’s in Taiwan, Spain, or Malaysia.
#10 Utilizing my talents to give back to others by volunteering overseas.
#11 Eat cuisine from a food stall, not just a Lonely Planet certified restaurant.
#12 Learn something useful.
#13 Trying a sport I’d never attempt at home. Skydiving anyone?
#14 Watching the sunset at Machu Picchu, the Egyptian Pyramids, and the Taj Mahal.
#15 View each travel day as a fresh slate, where the common or the spectacular might appear.
Happy trails, everyone!
Peacing out before hang glide in Brazil
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@Cornelius – Oh monkey, let’s hope that never happens. :)
I’m always afraid that after long term traveling that I’ll forget to do #15 that the extraordinary becomes ordinary, scary thought. If that ever happens to you read your cubical series.
@Aye – I hope so. I like that idea as well. That one sprang from a thirst. What do other women in the world dream about?
@Catia – LOL. Fair enough. Perhaps I should revise the wheezing part. I’ll be doing lots of that.
@Shannon – Oh, we’ll see on the skydiving. Many items on the bucket list – and parallel lists at once! Wasn’t I supposed to pare things down? Yikes!
Looking forward to reading about how you accomplish each of these! Sky diving has been on my list now for awhile but I haven’t gotten up the gumption yet! :-)
Great list! I do have one thing to say though to “Have you ever seen a backpacker wheezing for dear life?”… that’s just because you’ve never seen me in person climbing 150ish very steep stairs to a hostel with my bag on my back, trust me it wasn’t pretty. The first few times up those stairs I was beyond wheezing and well into the gasping for breath stage. :p
Awesome list.. May all your travel missions come alive for you! :-) you can definitely find a lot of food stalls in Asia. I like the “meet ordinary women in each country visited idea”