After giving several walks around the world have found places where I could imagine living in that city visited for the first time, melt in its midst, know their codes, sit in cafes or on beaches as one and talk in your language. In other, Instead, I wished skedaddle, without being able to find anything that seduced me.
During the long winters in Europe I think of all the places I have visited and others I like to visit, As I like to do the same thing Elizabeth Gilbert in Bali : buy a ticket to a destination where no one expected me, not knowing where I live, or what I do, neither know nor how much is the euro, nor how it of taxis at the airport, and not knowing ... not knowing where to tell the taxi driver to take me. That element of mystery and some risk gives me butterflies, as a teenager in love.
Unfortunately, There are few places in the world where one can discover new or unfamiliar customs havens
I noticed that a similarity inalienable is installed for the planet and, unfortunately, There are few places in the world where one can discover new or unfamiliar customs havens. Our world has been mapped with absolute precision and few roads, people or species that have not been cataloged.
There are few countries that do not know what a hot dog, there is a Holiday Inn to stay or a McDonald's where biting a hamburger. The Masai have mobile phones, children in Africa or Asia dress shirts with the logo of Nike and play with bottle caps of Coca-Cola. In Cairo I met a cartel, outside a neighborhood junk shop, saying: "Cheaper than the Mercadona!».
The Masai have mobile phones, children in Africa or Asia dress shirts with the logo of Nike and play with bottle caps of Coca-Cola
Even so it is a pleasure to discover that there are still romantic souls on the journey seeking a meeting with themselves as well as a deep connection to the world we inhabit. When one is traveling with extraordinary people doing extraordinary things, and for which, the home is a convenience which dispense. And Malaysia I met a French widow 70 years that thought settle in Penang and voluntarily assist in humanitarian projects. In the India I agreed on a bus ( such that the same load hens, goats or people) heiress to a great fortune Spanish, that was excited to spend the next three years working in an orphanage. And Marrakech a young Australian said I would be a millionaire in a year thanks to a children's book that he had written. And Madagascar I met a Croatian boy who had left his country to save the turtles in the Indian Ocean and with an Italian carrying the few tourists to see whales in their small boat. The meeting with these people makes my spirit. It is not only a beautiful landscape that fills us full, is contact with people walking around us. People who have something to say but do not open your mouth, people who enriches us with his strange wisdom.
In Marrakech-old Australian said I would be a millionaire in a year thanks to a children's book that he had written
Although there are many ways to travel, the authentic journey must be done the hard way. Normally solo, to areas where planes land only and the only way to get there is in four-four, horse riding, by boat or on foot. Where heat is so strong that you dry or cold blood so pervasive that freezes you ideas, mosquitoes as ferocious as the wildest of beasts, where the wind is so strong that lambasts the trees to bend, sudden rain sounds like machine gun on the roof of brass and becomes muddy roads impassable pools of chocolate, where few guidelines are driven by the only starlight, and the police is so corrupt that does not return the passport unless you negotiate the fine or unexpected invite to dinner agent. The real journey is never comfortable and safe, does not come in pink box with champagne ( although sometimes other with high doses of rum ).
It is not only a beautiful landscape that fills us full, is contact with people walking around us
Whatever the type of trip you do, always knows the traveler on the road never feel alone, for the earth is made of miracles, people unique and haunted places.
