5 Ways to Take a Virtual Trip (anywhere you wish to go. Serious!)
Thursday, January 20th, 2011It’s already 20 days into January. And I have not even stepped into beautiful Andaman (that includes the sea, the archipelagos) yet!
Glancing through my flickr album obviously doesn’t help; rather it has an adverse effect. The nice turquoise sea, with the bright blue sky in fact heighten the feeling of been-years-since-am-there-do-that! Argh, I just hated the feelings.
My Mak aka mom/mother has not been well; thus the main reason why the weekend travelling have shifted from up-north-to-border to balik kampung where my parents & brother/family reside.
So, how does one escape and make that virtual trip? Here’s what I do… (this list is not in any order of importance. Oh, yeah, please feel free to comment):
- read other people’s travel journals (it’ll help you to plan and be prepared for your upcoming trip)
- take a walk down memory lane of places you’ve been and visited. Use all your senses – think of that unique ocean smell, the sea breeze that touches your face, the loud cranking noises of the long tail boat – and reminisce that experiences. Sometimes, we were too occupied with the mechanics of travelling that we forgot to enjoy (I mean truly enjoy) the trips
- if (2) does not work for you then start writing about your travel experiences. I bet someone, somewhere can benefit from your experience.
- if you are too extrovertish to do (1), (2) or (3), then grab your mobile and bitch-it-off to your buddies (main target – those who are infected by travel bugs , just like you)
- if all the above fail to kill the travel-bugs that had infected you, then grab your walking shoes and walk or drive around your neighborhood/ town/ countrysides. I am pretty sure we’d notice something that would attract our attentions. Things that we local-people would take for granted.
Gosh! That ease my pains 🙂
syeefa.jay