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| My travel vision board |
I have a vision board on my computer about the places I want
to go. It has been there since the start of 2012. It is mostly local South African
places, not even overseas destinations…
(Maybe that is the problem?)
In my future vision I am going to Mozambique to swim with
the dolphins.
I am going to Cape Town to eat fish at the Waterfront and at all the Bays. I am going to travel on all the wine routes, and taste wine and
champagne and wine and champagne. (I have done a little bit of it, but it is
something to do on a regular basis! Tick!)
I am going to the Drakensberg Mountains, and climb a few of
those chain ladders again. (I have done it before. Tick!)
I am going to spend lazy afternoons on the beach at the
Dolphin Coast in Kwazulu-Natal. (I have been there, this year at Umdloti, but
it is still one of my favourite local destinations for a great family holiday! Tick!)
Up until now I have been doing vicarious travels to overseas
destinations through the pages of books. And magazines. And blogs. And Facebook.
I have been sharing in the glorious travels of family and
friends.
I have been soaking in the sun from pages glaring from
destinations from white beaches and aquamarine water and mountains touching the
clouds and open bush spaces littered with roaming wild life, and bustling skyscrapers
and churches and castles bursting with history.
But I haven’t been there myself…
I wish that I could say that it is enough to have quelled my
travel-lust, but of course we all know that it does not work like that!
Instead it fuels the desire to board the next plane to an exotic
destination with an exotic name that needs to be Googled when you hear it
first!
I want to go “there”!
I realize I desperately need to upgrade my vision board, and
what a better way than to start today with this kick-in-the butt inspiration
from the Travelstart Blogger Experience Contest being run.
Thumbs!
See you on the next plane!
