Blogging to Travel

I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. Since I was a child, I have had the opportunity to travel. Once bitten by the travel bug, you will never be able to cure yourself of the disease. Travelitus I think it's called.

It was always my goal to travel the world and I could say that I've almost achieved it but not quite. That is one of the reasons that blogging fits so well into my life plans and goals. You can blog from anywhere in the world. All you need is a laptop or an internet cafe. Now as I get older, I've visualized the future for myself. I'm sitting under a palm tree somewhere on some white sand beach, close to a straw thatched roof bar and internet access and I'm managing my blogs. My usual costume in these fantasies is a loose white t shirt and a pair of shorts and some flip flops (my favorite footwear). I might be wearing a sunhat to protect myself from the harmful rays of the sun. Then again, I might not be.

When I was young, my parents took my siblings and I on fabulous trips to distant destinations on other continents, we experienced different cultures, saw amazing architecture, stayed in some good, some bad hotels, walked around towns built centuries ago, explored museums, castles, mountains. We were constantly surrounded by foreign languages which gave most of us in the family the gift to learn different languages. This opportunity was one of the greatest things in our childhood. However, the negative thing about all this travel was that most of my siblings and I were bitten by the travel bug.

Since then, my adult life has continued to be a life of travel to far off destinations. The funny thing is, I've found myself wondering why I didn't move to one of these far off destinations. I've been pondering that as of late.

So this is where blogging and my future goals fit in. As a blogger and freelance writer, I have written many travel articles for other people's blogs and I have several travel blogs myself. I can write from experience about the different countries I have been to, about their cultures, their hotels, their restaurants and good and bad experiences while travelling to different places. I love to write about other countries and different cultures.

I have other interests which I also write about, so I will never be bored. This blogging thing requires lots of research, lots of blogging knowledge and writing skills. Add to this, there are long hours involved in the whole process. I'm certainly not one that, once I retire I'll drop dead. (You always hear stories of people who retire and then drop dead because working was their whole life and they suddenly have nothing to do - get some hobbies now! I say). I've got so much to do, so many more places to travel to and SO LITTLE TIME LEFT!