I love to travel. Exploring new places, eating new food, seeing completely different environments with the unfamiliar sounds and smells will always be a thrill. Smell always stay with me the strongest after I have come home from my journey. For example, the smell of fire – not a fireplace fire, but a brush fire or wildfire always reminds me of Jakarta. In Jakarta they cook outside in front of their homes, so at any given time there will be 10 to 30 different cooking fires along a street. This doesn’t sound pleasant, but I loved it. Now, anytime I smell a wildfire I’m taken to the streets of Jakarta.

I want to continue my travels, but am not sure where to go next. I have always wanted to see Macchu Picchu or backpack through Southeast Asia (Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and other countries around that region). A girlfriend of mine lived in eastern Europe and said it was great place to experience…so I need to get there too. I’ve always wanted to travel to the bayous in the South, but think I will wait.

Countries I have been to;
Mexico, Indonesia, Costa Rica, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, France, Italy, Spain, England, Switzerland, Antigua (Caribbean Island), Israel, Egypt

States I have been to;
California, Arizona, Oregon, Nevada, New York, Washington, Missouri, (Texas for a moment)

My boyfriend and I have danced around going backpacking during the summer (early fall) and hope that it happens. I know backpacking doesn’t hold the thrill of traveling to new places, but sometimes I get so wound-up at work and with life that I forget that there is so much more than my life and its chaos. It’s good to remember that I have a big world to explore when my little world gets to be too much.