Level week 5 - The need to explore

     These past couple of months have been hard for my family. We were always that family that would never be home during the summer because we were away. Now COVID has put that on pause and it has been hard. Ever since I was little I remember going somewhere at least once a year. For example, we would always drive down to Florida for winter break, or try to visit my family in France in the summer every year. 

    I never realized how important traveling was for me until I began to itch to leave the house. I wanted to be anywhere and go anywhere that wasn't my house. I noticed that it also started to take a toll on my mom. She was always the traveler in our family. When she was younger she would go on group trips to Kenya, Greece, and so many other places which really sparked her fire. She then began to plan one trip a year. When we were younger, my siblings and I, my mom would bring us all as a family. We went to Iceland, Wyoming, Bahamas, France, Canada, London, and many other areas. 

    When we started to get older it became harder to plan a trip with everyone's different schedules and lives. This did not stop her from having her one trip a year. My mom and dad started to go on trips between the two of them. While we were at home they went to Australia, India, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, and so many other locations. This made me so jealous when I was younger. 

    Now it is a different type of jealousy that I have. Now I hope to be able to do the same that my parents could do for us and themselves. I want to be able to show my children how amazing traveling is and hopefully spark the same fire that my mother put in me. Traveling puts me at peace. No matter where I am going, who I am with, or the circumstances. I am always happy. 

    I am incredibly lucky for the start that I have had with traveling. I have been to many great locations such as Israel, England, Greece, Iceland, Jamaica, Prague, Italy, and some more.  I want to see so much more and visit so much more. Traveling is definitely going to be apart of my life when I am older.