![]() As soon as I finish one trip, I’m planning the next one while also trying to write about a trip I took six months ago. It’s something I rarely get to do, especially when it comes to travel. For the first time in a decade, I’ve found the time to simply stop, sit down, and reflect. I’m finding that these prolonged periods of isolation are giving me the gift of pausing. I knew I didn’t want to join the hordes of travel bloggers who are pivoting towards writing about remote work and productivity, as, well, let’s just say it’s not quite my forte. In the age of coronavirus, I’ve pondered long and hard about the type of content I most want to produce. From there, I took a ferry to Boracay, and a tricycle to my hostel. Three days later, I boarded a midnight flight to Cebu, then a second flight to Caticlan. ![]() Immediately, I was slapped in the eyeballs by a thousand breathtaking photos of the most incredible beaches I’d ever seen. Back then, I had yet to read a single travel blog post about the country, so I opened up Google Images and searched for photos of the Philippines. I considered Vietnam, Thailand, Japan, Malaysia… and then I saw the word Cebu.Ī quick search showed me that it was in the Philippines. I jumped on Skyscanner and decided to search for flights from Hong Kong to everywhere. My original plan would see me drifting back into China to explore the southern regions of the country, but after I found my first visit challenging, I was having second thoughts. From Zagreb to Ljubljana to Budapest to Kyiv to Moscow to Taipei to Shanghai to Beijing to Seoul, and then I found myself in Hong Kong, unsure of where to venture next. I’d been travelling solo for three months at this point, hopping from city to city as I made my way through Eastern Europe and Eastern Asia. I had no idea that last item on the list would be the main driving force for my decade of travels. I wanted to see it all: cities, villages, lakes, mountains, rainforests, glaciers, deserts, and beaches. Back when I was first planning to travel long-term, I didn’t think my journey would have a focus.
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