Wednesday, December 30, 2009

The Beginning!!!

This blog has come about as I'm going on a trek in Nepal leaving on 28 March 2010. I wanted to have a blog just for my travels. I'm not sure if I will have too many followers but I'm mainly doing this so I have somewhere to post my lead up to my trip, my trip diary, photos and any further travels I take. Also if possible I'll try to post here at least once or twice while I'm away.

The blog is pretty basic at the moment. It will evolve in time. I'm enrolled to do a photoshop class in January so I'm hoping I'll be able to come up with a really good graphic for my header.

I named my blog "Travels beyond my Dreams", because for many years I've read many travel stories of others and gone on their journeys with them dreaming of what it would be like to be exploring many interesting and exotic places throughout the world.

In reality, the places I've visited overseas are the USA (which I love) and Bali. But there are many more places I want to go to. I could talk about all the things that might limit me from travelling like not enough money, time restraints, family commitments, work, etc, etc, etc. But instead I'm just going to go with the flow of life and aim to travel to some of the places I want to when I get the chance. So it could just be one trip, but I'm sure there will be many more to come as well.

It is also a significant trip for me as it is the first overseas trip I've taken by myself. Well its not really totally by myself as I'm linking up with a group trek once I get to Nepal. But its still a little bit daunting and I know that its going to make me feel good that I actually went and did it by myself.

I really admire all the young people of today who have so much confidence to go out backpacking around the world by themselves. Its what I would have loved to do in my 20's, but I didn't have the confidence to do it then. Anyway its never too late to do things and anyway I've only just turned 45, so that's not old - is it. (I suppose to a 21 year old it is though!) Well I'm just 21 with 24 years experience!!!

In my 30's I went through a stage where I wanted to challenge myself and do a whole lot of things that I'd wanted to do and hadn't before. So I went tandem skydiving, tandem hang-gliding, learnt to surf and learnt to dive. So I think I'm at a bit of a stage again where I want to let loose, have some fun and jump out of the routine of life for awhile.

So here I am - jumping out of my dreams and into the big wide world!!!!!!