My Life’s a Travel Movie – 3 Continents in 3 Weeks

by Alyssa Ramos

I am unquestionably a single of those men and women. One particular of those people who are consistently bombarding your newsfeeds with pictures by the pool or in random travels. One particular of people people who no 1 is truly very confident of how they control to be all of these areas simply because it seems like they hardly ever function, and would never have the revenue to do any of it, unless of course someone else was paying for it (which is what several ignoraties assume). Very well, one point’s for confident. I’m confident glad that I’m not one particular of People people who has to question why or how another person else lives their dreams, and that I am one of individuals who just does it. And I’m actually glad that there are an entire unusual breed of individuals-es who are doing precisely what I’m carrying out ideal now. Working from a laptop so that I can be wherever the hell I want to be. Which is why I’m at the moment thirty,000ft in the air, on my way to a three week journey about the world. That I paid for.

It all began with my genetic predisposition to travel and volunteer. My mother traveled the planet as a flight attendant for ten years, then settled down and took a job operating for the Foster Small children Association in which she ended up fostering and adopting two young children my older brother and sister. While we didn’t always have the income to travel, she’d encourage any chance that came up. The travel bug hit me tough about five years ago after taking a university eurotrip to 16 plus countries in 36 days, and has ceased to end ever considering that.

It was when I moved to LA 3 years ago that I found that I wasn’t meant to be confined to the four by 4 prison of an office, and that I could use my computer system and writing skills to make cash just by performing what I’m superior at on the computer system – Seo material creating and social media advertising and marketing. A lot, and by ‘a lot’, I imply the vast majority of individuals have % strategy what I even do, due to the fact it’s not as easy as, “I function for blah blah blah”. Nicely, sucks for individuals individuals for staying uncomplicated-minded. As I intended, and as a whole lot of other wanderlusters also do, I saved up for months for a trip I knew I could actually get because I could function from wherever I was.

I’ve been feeling a pull in direction of Africa since last September and have been researching volunteer applications there ever since. I even believed I was crazy at initially, but with a very little push from my mom (you can’t not go to Africa when your very own mom tells you to just go), I applied for the Childcare and Teaching program in South Africa through Global Volunteer HQ and booked a one particular way flight to Cape Town.

Cue my following crazy plan. To take a look at all seven continents by the time I turn 27. Realizing it would be inexpensive to fly as soon as I was previously in Africa, I searched flights to my ultimate continent locations and prior to I knew it, I had one particular way tickets to Thailand and Australia too. I made the decision not to count Antarctica. Antarctica sucks mainly because it’s unattainable to get to without having paying above $5k. Anyway, I booked a journey that would go one particular total revolution about the entire globe, from LA to LA. (Tip: I also chose flights with long layovers in locations I wished to see as properly, so it was like a totally free min-trip – I just went to Dubai for six hours!)

I acquired to see Dubai (briefly) just by deciding on a long layover!

Although I’m effectively mindful that my a single week of physical volunteer perform won’t make a significant impact on the young children in Africa, what I do know is that I have the sources to spread the word to folks who can assistance more than I can. I’m thankful that just by blabbing non-quit about it, I was ready to recruit two close friends to join my volunteer journey as effectively, and hope to encourage lots of extra to do the identical.

So now I had some mates for the very first component of the trip, but I definitely wanted to make some connections, and discover out what the best items to do in each place I visited were. Of program I scoured the online like the Google and prepare-building addict I am, but then my ever glowing small lightbulb in my head shined so brilliant that it almost exploded! I imagined, why not attain out to bloggers in every single country, who write about it for a living and function them on my blog? Geniussss.

Following a tiny stalking, and reaching out on some prolonged limbs through Twitter, I gathered about 10 bloggers across the globe who have been interested in my undertaking that I’m calling, “Blogger Guides”. I sent them interview queries by way of email asking things like what the best touristy and non-touristy spots had been, style and safety tips, etc, and a single question that will be part of a further project, “If You Could Inform The Globe One particular Point, What Would It Be?”.

I am so beyond grateful on so lots of ranges for the possibility to travel, understand, and share, and for the remarkable people today who have supported me and helped make this trip happen. My mom for sharing the present of wanderlust and offering, and for supporting all of my crazy ass tips, and getting the only 1 who reassured me that I’m not going to die on Malaysia Airlines. My boss and my clients for not owning a challenge with me working in a timezone eight hours ahead…but thinking I’m crazy for taking the Malaysia flight. My awesome close friends who are the two energized for me and also concerned about my safety (generally ebola and Malaysia Airlines), and specifically the awesome good friends who not only are babysitting my Cat and Oscar, but volunteered to do so (Lisle, Alicia, and Stacey). I am also quite grateful for Jonathan and Daniel, who listened to my crazy notion and signed up for it, and for my incredible bloggers who not only assisted give me insight about their hometowns, but a deeper insight about how interconnected we all definitely are as nicely. Oh, and let’s not neglect all of my magnificent readers who have inspired me to retain up with my passion for writing (and the haters who present me that I must be accomplishing one thing brilliant!).

So with out even further ado, I current to you, the onset of my journey around the planet – 3 continents in less than three weeks, my Blogger Guides, and my attempt to make cool YouTube videos making use of a GoPro. Bon Voyage!

Camps Bay in Cape Town is as attractive as all people promised it to be!