Hey world,
As I mentioned in Sunday's Dear World letter, I took an absolutely spontaneous trip to Mbeya this past weekend -- meaning I found out and decided less than 45 minutes before the car was leaving that I was in!
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The thing about my travel style is that I am almost never
spontaneous. When I travel, I like to have everything researched in advance. I
like to know where I want to go and what I can do there and what the cost
should be and what I can expect. I like to look at websites and read reviews
and travel blog posts and paint a mental picture before I see it for myself.
Because of this, I often find myself to be the Trip Master.
This past weekend turned all of that on its head.
The first reason was that I was not the Trip Master. The
second was that I thought to myself: what if I don’t plan for a single minute? What
if I don’t google anything on my phone? What if I just let plans find me, and
live on a whim for a couple of days?
So I did just that.
As a result, I found myself lounging by a poolside at sunset,
sitting on a balcony listening to birds wake up, wandering through a coffee
plantation, skipping rocks in a stream, hiking Mbeya peak (including a
not-so-brief moment of bushwhacking), carving my own chicken for dinner,
attending birthday festivities for a person I’ve never met, and going hours at
a time without so much of a glance at my phone [the result being a shortage of
pictures, but I took a few good ones!].
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| Mbeya, see you again (hopefully soon)! |
This trip was another great reminder to unplug and go #offthegrid, but also to let my travel adventures create themselves.
The motto of the weekend: “When was the last time you did something for the first time?”
Xoxo,
M
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