With an array of brilliant flashbacks popping into my head. It felt mighty good to be back in South Africa. Only 14 months prior had I been standing in that exact same spot when my flight from New York City had arrived and the South What I Like Most 11th, 2013|USA|100 Comments Crowd in NY Every now and then, while out there traveling, I end up in a conversation in which someone asks me “What do you like best about your home country?” The first couple of times it happened, I actually had to think real hard to come up with an answer, simply because I spend so much time focusing on international travel and all of these foreign destinations that I rarely paid much attention to what I enjoy about the USA.
I traveled, the more the answer to such a question eventually France Email List did become quite clear. It became quite clear because I realized that every time I returned to the USA, the exact same thing happened. My flight lands. I get off the airplane and I walk through the airport. I stand in the immigration line and then, I just look around me. Before long, I feel goosebumps forming on my skin. I proceed through the immigration inspection, grab my backpack, pass through the How Can We Help You Travel? By Derek|February 4th, 2013|Personal Stuff, Perspectives, Travel Tips & Advice|138 Comments Zebra at Thornybush As I alternate this morning between packing my backpack and standing on the balcony of my room in the South African wilderness, where I have a clear view of some zebras and wildebeests wandering around the river bed, I am left speechless.
I am speechless, not because of the animals, but because of the fact that I have now traveled to South Africa, not once, but twice in my life at this point. I am also speechless at the fact that before South Africa, I was in India for three months, and that prior to India, I had spent time in Romania, Finland, Estonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Albania, Bulgaria, Turkey and many other destinations just within this past year. Actually, I am speechless whenever I think back to any of the destinations I’ve visited, to any of my travels over the past 13 years.