For the Love of Travel

If you have been following my blog posts, most of them are about travel – solo travel, living solo, enjoying exploration. My work is my ticket to that travel. I get to explore new cities, their food, their sights, ways of living, and markets as a part of my job & that is the biggest plus of my job.

And in terms of that this year has been a rocking one. The year yet to finish & 2 amazing international trips already – Kuala Lampur (Malaysia) & just recently Vietnam – both new countries, new experiences. I had a group of friends from work with my during the Malaysia trip. It was quite another experience – exploring a new country with friends, without supervision from parents or seniors, doing a bit of self-exploration.

 When opportunity presented itself to travel to Vietnam & no friends – just an entire sales team I had hardly ever met before I panicked. I was excited for the country – but how do I explore the city? How do I try new food? How do I capture the numerous sites into my memory? Alone?

It is often said that situations can bring out a personality of you that you didn’t know existed. My need to ensure I missed out nothing & experienced the country in the limited time I had gave me that confidence – to do a bit of solo travel in a totally different country, to make friends with a random bunch of people & take them along traipsing with me around town for trying new food, or see different sites, to realize that even if they are people from work whom I have never really met before I can gel with them.

When you travel alone it boosts your confidence like nothing else. That sense of freedom, independence & enjoying your own company is an adrenaline rush like nothing else. And the more I travel, the more I fall in love with it & eggs me on to find opportunities to travel more. Manifesting another international trip the soonest. Universe are you listening?