My Travel Bucket List

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I recently finished traveling around the world for more than 13 months. It was an incredible experience, and I saw a lot of places and met a lot of people. Alas, there are still locations that I would like to visit.

That being said, I feel like my desire to see “everywhere” has kind of diminished. After traveling so much, the experience got kind of repetitive after a while and not as exciting. There are still quite a few places I want to visit in Europe, a few places in Africa, some Asian locations, and some places in North America, among other spots. But I would say that most of those are “normal” destinations and not truly adventurous. Not truly bucket-list worthy. Continue reading →

The Pyrenees

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A few years ago, my friend and I went to France to go hiking in the mountains. We decided on going to the mountains near Lourdes because it didn’t seem to be as touristy there as compared to other more well-known areas in the Pyrenees.

We first had to fly to Toulouse, and then we took the train to Lourdes.

Once we got to Lourdes, we started making our way through the town toward the mountains.

Unfortunately, it started raining right then. We trudged through the rain along the roads until someone was kind enough and pulled over for us, offering us a ride.

It was nice to get out of the rain on the first day of our backpacking trip, and she got us much closer to the mountains. By that time, the rain had subsided enough that we could walk without getting soaked.

We managed to get to a lake that marked the entrance of the park, and we ended up pitching our tent behind some bushes where it was fairly hidden.

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