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Photo of the Moment: Mourning Moon, Nepal
by Mike Richard
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Vagabondish editor, Mike Richard, lives in Rhode Island - a spit of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats, small, declarative sentences and speaking in the third person.
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When I travel I shed my known life. Suddenly i do not expect anything and who knows what will happen. this FREEDOM is the feeling I am hooked on.
One of the reasons I love to travel is this: I feel a sense of such freedom. Its like how I feel after a couple of drinks. Without the alcohol. I am not one who really worries about what others think and yet there is an additional level of freedom of expression. the not knowing what is next. I do not plan every detail. Just the big things and I am willing to stop. Once for example in Lima Peru the Girl I met was so so wonderful I had to be with her for a couple extra days. So i delayed my trip to Equador for 2 days and my travel buddy just went ahead of me. ( he thought I was crazy but Here i am 20 years later and that is such a great memory.
I wonder what happened to her.
Many peopl have NO idea what I mean cause they take their worlds with them w- they bring a laptop, their ipod with THEIR music and their experience is Like picking up a suitcase of their life and just changing spots. This is NOT a real; Traveling joy.
I have even seen people have to pull their kids away from the club lounge video games to go to the floating market or A nagnificent temple in Thailand.
My answer is a sense of Freedom.