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|  | Bali, Bangkok, Kyoto, Colombo, Istanbul, Samarkand, Des Moines, Ulan Bator, Rio, Marrakech….
When I was seventeen, I entered that list in the back of my diary, as I lay on my bed, looking out of the window at the pictures made by the clouds in the sky. I never really believed that I'd ever visit any of those places, but I'd just read On the Road, The Great Railway Bazaar and The Lonely Planet Guide to South-East Asia, and I was so full of wanderlust that I was fit to burst.
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One day, I just stood on the road in front of my house and stuck my thumb out. It's really true: the first step is the hardest. I've been traveling pretty well ever since. I have visited 94 countries, but I still haven't been to all of the places on my original list, and, in a way, I don't want to...yet. I want to save a few for later. | | |
| | I've visited some of them though and who'd have believed that I'd wind up one day riding a bicycle around Bali, sleeping on a tatami mat in Kyoto, staying for more than a year in a house on stilts at the edge of the South China Sea, sleeping in a yurt in the Gobi Desert, or traveling overland, half-way round the world by train from Beijing to London, or by bus from Mexico to Chile? |
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orangea Fri Nov 6, 2009 07:55 UTC
Hey, long time no see...how are things? | Dialing Thu Sep 17, 2009 20:09 UTC
Privet Ian! got rainy evening in Kyiv - browsing on VT:)) wishing you amazing autumn days! very best regards, Anna | cheezecake_deli Sun Sep 6, 2009 09:57 UTC
Happy belated birthday! | icunme Mon Aug 31, 2009 16:59 UTC
H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y a dat later from bella Roma - I'm Italian so I can be late! :) come, see, and have a great time! Ciao, Carol <(•¿•)> |
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