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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Homeward Bound









Who would have ever thought coming home from travelling would be so hard?
I've had this most amazing trip, an absolute cracker, if you will, of an adventure. Yet I feel so empty inside.

I keep telling everyone that I feel like a kid who has tasted chocolate for the first time.
The kid wouldn't say "Hey cool, so that's what chocolate tastes like hey? Definitely satisfied with that, won't ever need to taste it again"

I don't think so

This kid wants to get as much chocolate as she can, and by chocolate I mean adventure. And by adventure, I mean overseas travel.
I've seen some of the most amazing places in the world on this trip.




The Pyramids
The Sphinx
Petra
Cruised on the Nile River
Experienced Jerusalem and all the Old City wonderfulness that it has to offer
and the list goes on..!
Being in a new place seeing a whole different country for the first time is nothing short of exhilarating, and yet it always leaves you wanting more.

And now, all I want to do now is see more. I've caught the travel bug bad and there's no turning back! I feel like I've experienced a whole new level of open-mindedness and I want to keep going...and going...and going...
My eyes have been opened to new possibilities and now all I want to do is see the world! Unfortunately this dream is quite an expensive one...baby steps Jess, baby steps.

Obviously there's no way that we can keep travelling for our whole lives. There is a need to stay in one place, make friends, have people around us that have known us for more than an hour sharing life stories over a beer and some nachos.

But yet, the idea of just going off and not coming back for quite a long time does seem to appeal to me, experiencing new cultures every day, seeing new sights. Meeting new people and leaving no rock unturned. I guess all I have to do now is get my 'save' on.