I was a rebellious child, and I still do to this day. I love to go out there and explore the world. I started traveling by myself when I was 12 years old. I bravely took a train from Blitar, East Java to Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia by myself. It took me more than 24 hours to ride a train from East Java to Jakarta, West Java. From that day on, I never looked back. I just love traveling and being out there.
I had been traveling through Asia, Europe in the early 90’s before Facebook and other social media, Instagram, Tweeter even exist.
I had been to Disneyland’s grand opening in Paris in 1993 as much as I enjoyed white water rafting at De Joncel, Montpellier, Paris. I also lived in Taipei, Taiwan for a year and of course lived in my beautiful country, Indonesia for half of my life.
I used to live in Holland for a few years before I settled in to the United State in 1998.
I have been to at least 18 countries, 17 states, and 105 cities in the USA, 15 cities in Germany, and many other cities overseas.
I will go for anything from hiking, camping out, museum hoping and all of those fun things. as much as I enjoyed kayaking at the American River Parkway, Sacramento, CA.
And I still crave traveling for more.
I used to take thousands of pictures of places where I had been but unfortunately, a lot of them were missing, either lost on the trip, bad pictures or my friend/ex’s who were traveling with me took the pictures and we lost contact. I tried as much as possible to preserve the pictures.
My point is, we can lose money, material things but travel is the best teacher and learning experience that we don’t get at school. Travel is the best memory that you can’t replace them with material things. A friend comes and go. Material things can be gone in a blink of an eye but the memory will be there forever. Unless you lose your memory too.
Still ongoing writing…….. More to come!
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