Most people who have known me for a few years have known about my plans to travel the world. This has been something that I have wanted to do for years, and although it took me a few more years to get started, those pre-travel years were very beneficial for preparing me for what was to come.
My travel ideology has never been focused on seeing the sites a certain destination has to offer, although this is of course part of it. I’ve always known that a big part of the adventure would be the people that I would meet, and relationships that would form. Recently, I’ve been coming to realize just how integral these relationships would be in the overall picture of what I’m looking to gain from travel.
Most people have heard of the Internet, myself included. It’s a closely guarded secret, but computers are my thing, so when I started thinking about travelling around Europe, I took to the Internet with the plan to meet some people from various places in Europe. These people could then give me some local advice on out-of-the-way places to check out, as well as possibly meeting up with them depending on if we seemed we’d get along in “real lifeâ€. (more…)