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Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Reasons to travel
Shi has highlighted this weekend’s travel section of New York Times on his blog. A series of interesting articles about countriesfamouswriters have visited and past or present urges to travel and the books that stimulate them.
I travel because I love it. I’ve always wanted to see new countries and meet new people. My passion for such adventures has been triggered by everything: magazines, books, movies, photographs, everything showing a new place of the world. I haven’t been to that many countries yet; my short list includes Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Italy (Rome and surrounding areas only) and Turkey (Istanbul only). But I still have plenty of time.
Which countries have you visited? Do you like traveling? And why exactly do you want to travel?
I travel because I love to reinvent myself. I like to go on short-term tourist trips, but my real passion is to live in other countries for extended periods of time. I like to drink in my surroundings, appreciate all the cultural nuances that only time can show you about a place. I travel to meet wanderers such as myself. I travel because I like a challenge. I travel because I feel like a more complete person the more I see and experience. I travel to find myself.
Here is my list so far...
Lived: Albuquerque, New Mexico Austin, Texas Maringá, Brazil Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Storo, Italy Peci, Italy Chimoio, Mozambique Maputo, Mozambique
Visited: Zimbabwe South Africa Mozambique Mexico Venezuela Brazil Paraguay Argentina Cuba Bahamas Tahiti Hawaii Switzerland Germany Austria Netherlands Italy Slovenia Croatia Greece and, of course, the US
Yes, I am blessed for having the opportunity to see so many parts of this world. It is truly a passion of mine.
But there is a downside to living abroad and traveling so much: you lose your sense of "home". I am still searching for home, trying to understand what it is for me. Sometimes I am very envious of people that have lived their entire lives in the same place.
Their home is clear, full of family and old friends. I haven't stayed in the same place for more than 1.5 years since I was 15!
Ali, each step we make usualy implies a tradeoff...And defining home by other parameters can be a hard thing to achieve. I lived in about 8 different places in the past 5 years. Same city, true, but still, I understand your feeling of not belonging to one place! Yet it makes you tresure people more, those that are close to you at a time make your home.
Name: Alina Home: Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania About Me: "This is my church. This is where I heal my hurts". It's also where I feel free and my preferred means of expression. See my complete profile
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What an exciting prompt!
I travel because I love to reinvent myself. I like to go on short-term tourist trips, but my real passion is to live in other countries for extended periods of time. I like to drink in my surroundings, appreciate all the cultural nuances that only time can show you about a place. I travel to meet wanderers such as myself. I travel because I like a challenge. I travel because I feel like a more complete person the more I see and experience. I travel to find myself.
Here is my list so far...
Lived:
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Austin, Texas
Maringá, Brazil
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Storo, Italy
Peci, Italy
Chimoio, Mozambique
Maputo, Mozambique
Visited:
Zimbabwe
South Africa
Mozambique
Mexico
Venezuela
Brazil
Paraguay
Argentina
Cuba
Bahamas
Tahiti
Hawaii
Switzerland
Germany
Austria
Netherlands
Italy
Slovenia
Croatia
Greece
and, of course, the US
And I'm just getting started!