From Iceland to New York, from Belgium to Ireland, from all the amazing hosts to all the amazing couchsurfers that made me tinkle some tears, it was without any doubts an amazing year.
I've made perfect, life lasting friends, got an amazing girlfriend, and I've changed my life forever.
Quite often people ask me why have I decided to leave a good work place for the sake of travelling for 6 months with someone I've only met 2 months ago. It's difficult to give them an answer, and it's even more difficult to show them the big picture of all of this. Travelling is something that you do for yourself, and never for someone else. But from the crowded cities of New York, till the isolated landscapes in Iceland, travelling is never travelling if you don't have a good friend to share those moments with.
I'm sure I'll never forget the moments I've spent with friends like Flávio and Nuno, just travelling, and all the amazing things we've seen and done.
I can't deny that travelling alone is and will be always an amazing experience, but after a while even when you meet people on the road, you feel the eagerness of having someone to share all of your experiences with. Every time I talk about New York with my friends, and Nuno is present, I always feel that only me and him, fully understand what we've seen and done during those days. There are always those silent moments where only me and him can share without saying a word.
Now it's time to share those moments with someone else and for a longer period.
Travelling is something more than just a big holiday, and people tend to confuse that quite easily. I've spend more money just with preparations and I will spend way more with other things during my trip. From insurance till gear, travelling is not cheap, but still it's possible to make it low budget.
In the end I truly hope I'll have something more than just photos on my camera or posts in this blog. I hope I've become more humble, patient, that I'm not returning alone, and mainly that I've learned how to love this world from the crowded city to the poor village, from the beautiful animal till the annoying mosquito, from the beautiful to the unspoken word.
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