The illusive question I've been asked so many times and most recently by Leyla from Chicago, USA.
To tell you the truth I got the travel bug after working in Holland in 2001 on my third visit there during a five month period. I hadn't ever been abroad before that at the age of 20. I started exploring just about anywhere I could at weekends, may it be the next village by bicycle or a train to Amsterdam or farther a field then, to Antwerp Belgium. Time trickled on and in my head I thought this is what I want to do, I want to see things. So I gave everything up for good and went on my merry way.
Working away from home started taking me to more places without choice and I started seeing places and meeting people of all kinds you can imagine. The addiction and adrenaline took over me and I used every penny I earned to travel where I wanted in my spare time, generally as a backpacker with an average of 14kg in my bag the whole time.
With a focus and a passion in travel, culture and football I started flying all over the world. Looking back to my very early days, I was one to be scared of going on an escalator or in a lift, it's hard to believe it was me living a thrilling adventure, saying YES to just about anything and everything. I have to say many people influensed me and some of which are still good friends.
From white water rafting in the Andes mountains to jungle treks in Thailand and Laos, watching England at World Cup Germany 2006 to being in the Atacama Desert for three weeks or even a 30 minute train journey to Manchester from home, to me it's all travelling and an adventure.
I shall also tell I never once ever thought I would travel but one thing led to another and the rest is history now. The oddest thing, after the first 6 years I started to lose the love for travel.
Then one day I picked up a book in an airport called THE ART OF TRAVEL by Alain de Botton and it reignited the fire in me and put every positive reason to travel again but this time, slighty more in control and I decided to purchase a camera and learn to type, write and most of all appreciate travel. And here I type today and hopefully continue to do so. The story continues...
If you would like to ask me a question, I will gladly answer it, comment below, thanks.
Links to other posts:
My Top Ten Travel Tips For Backpackers
My South American Story
Leyla form Chicago's blog link. Sunday Morning Soliloquy
42 minutes ago
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I still think you're mad blackburn. And you've still yet to make it to canananadia...
Come, I'm sensibly mad arn't I? You're right, I do have to come and see you!!! It will make me think now you know.
Good to hear from you Jeff, I'll be in touch.
I can easily see how one can just travel for so long. Once I got the hell out of Canada the first time, I couldn't stop either! There's so much more out there...a whole world for the taking!
Your right Jamaica,
It's such a big diverse world, it ain't a small world like the saying goes. Funny though, youwant to get out of Canada and I want to get to into it to see it! ha ha!
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