My Bizarre and Chaotic First Experience Traveling Overseas
When I was a kid, I begged my parents to get me a globe for my birthday. It’s all I wanted. When I had it, I would spend hours spinning it and jabbing my finger on a random spot. I would write the place on a list and keep spinning it. I would imagine all the fantastic adventures I would have travelling when I was older.
I grew up hearing stories from my parents about their travels to Asia and Europe and Mexico. The stories about Nepal and Thailand were always the most interesting.
As I got older, my desire to travel stuck with me. My older brother went to Thailand and filled my head with his extraordinary adventures. He went again and came back severely injured but still, I wanted to go. He went to Mexico and I was just graduating high school.
My teachers would ask me what I was going to do after I graduated. “Travel,” I would respond. Well, it didn’t happen exactly like that. First I had to save up money, but then I spent a lot of money too.
It wasn’t until I was 20 when I had enough money and courage to travel overseas. I didn’t even know where I wanted to go, just that I wanted to travel somewhere warm and exotic.
Remembering my parents’ stories, I decided to book a ticket to Nepal for 2 months. I didn’t know what to expect. I wasn’t…
