The past few years I have been traveling around the world between my ridiculous working week and my non existing PTO (paid time off).
As each month passes and the years goes by, it has been harder and harder for me to remember all those crazy and once in a life time experience from my past travels. Most of my travels are usually only 48 hours long or less. It is rare for me to stay in a country or city longer than that. The only reason I would have to stay in a country longer than that is because of work. I travel at minimal for work nowadays unlike couple years ago.
My personal favorite place to hide away from reality would be Santorini, Greece. However, going there is not easy or cheap so that never last long.
A lot of my family and friends always wonder how I travel so much without going broke. To be honest, there is a lot of tricks and a lot of way to get around that. I take full advantage of my credit card point system and live my life off my credit card only. I figure if I’m going to spend my money on my debt card I might as well collect some points while at it. Flights and hotels are tricky and I believe I found a way to get around expensive flights on more remote vacation area versus the high tourist attracted city. Overall, I will have to put dates for each post corresponding my past trips and it is not going to be in order.
I figured this will be a good away to remember my adventures and also help me relive some of those amazing time without having to spend real money to do it again. It is true though, a lot of experience is only a once in a life time and no matter how hard you try to replicate it to the tee it will never be the same.
Never be scared when you are lost because that is when the adventure comes out. The only thing I learned to worry about is if I have enough money for a taxi ride and where my hotel is located, otherwise I enjoy being lost in foreign soil.
I am a California native but, I was lucky to live in Hong Kong for couple of years when I was younger and worked in China for about a year. Overall, my addiction to travel allows me to keep working my insane hours.