What will you do if you don’t work a year?
After leaving in early May last year, I went back to 40 cities in 11 countries in Asia, Africa and Europe alone.
Because of the outdoor adventure, take a ride from the Sahara Desert to the Red Sea Village, camping at the volcano in Indonesia, and run at the end of Eurasia to watch a sunset, jump into the river valley formed by the “meteor fall” formed; In Egypt under the pyramid, Iran, which carries the soul of ancient Persia, Iraq, who is deeply trauma -trauma, is Iraq, who loves wine, from the Bordeaux Winery in France to the winemaker’s home in the village of Nanfa; love the sea I lived in the island, surfed on the sea, and dived to the bottom of the sea; love to experience different lives, go to 30 strangers at home, and make friends from all over the world. I still like to be in a movie. Like “Eat Pray Love”, meditation in the fields in Bali, eat pizza in Italy, and love …
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I am honggie, 28 years old, from Zhejiang. A Infp that is not good at doing any planning, of course, has never planned to travel around the world after leaving, nor does it improve the abilities of foreign language or deposit travel funds after work. Even the first stop of the global travel was temporarily set off for a ticket to make a ticket. I remember she said, “You only need to fly for 6 hours to climb the volcano.” At that time, I just watched the documentary “Fire of Love”, and was in love with the volcano of the volcanist couple, and just left the job for time. Why not go to see it?
My global journey began at that time.
When I arrived in Indonesia, standing at the foot of the active volcano, it was shocked by the masterpiece of nature. I climbed two volcanoes and a waterfall more than 100 meters high. There were no fear, but more excitement. Even if I walked in the steeper place, I walked very easily.
Nature has hugged me again, and it has been nourishing me.
I was born in the Xin’an River of Jiande. Later, I moved to Qiandao Lake with my family. When I was in high school, I moved to the Fuchun River. My growth has been next to the mountain next to the mountain. My father is a veteran navy. My swimming was taught by him, and the first lesson was not in the shallow waters of the pool, but in the Qiandao Lake of 10 meters deep. Although he was harsh to me since he was a child, he taught me bravery. After the volcano line, I also wanted to go to the beach to play with water, so I went to Bali to study surfing in Kuta and Canggu in the south.
For the first time, my coach accompanied me to watch the weather, the sea, and the waves. After going down the sea, he was patted by the big waves countless times, was involved in the sea, rushed back to the coast, and turned around to retrograde, greeted the next wave to stand up. Combining the coach’s suggestion, I slowly overcome my fear, and changed from “I’m afraid to fall into the sea” to “how can I stay on the surfing board longer”. On the fifth day of my surfing, the coach told me that I was the strongest and fastest of his students this year. He was proud of me. Because of the surfing, I was curious about the world below the sea, and then went to the northern map blueprint to learn water and lung diving. I have done a good job one by one. I have unlocked some unknown and help me know more about myself. I gradually realized that I might not have thought it was so ordinary, and I was not bad.
At the same time, I made some friends, digital tourists from various countries, musicians, and travelers who have been to 100 countries. Being with them constantly remind me that there are more than one choice in life. It is not a short -lived island vacation to return to the city to work. Life can be simply yourself. I also want to find my favorite life.
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After a month’s visa expired, I returned to China. But I don’t want to stop like this. I started looking forward to the distance, and I was curious about the new discovery of the next stop. I immediately applied for a European visa. Because the season of grape picking is coming, I usually like to drink wine and take the second level of WSET in China. I want to go to the winery this time. I went to Spain, Portugal, France, and then to Italy. I was fortunate to live for half a month with the winemakers of South French. He took me to take care of the vineyards and live a simple and healthy organic life. In free time, we will meet with other winemakers in the village, go to their respective wineries or homes, and share their wines and wines they brew last year. Almost every day, the aroma of wine is permeated in the air.
Perhaps it happens to be the simplicity of this village. Even if the neighbors live far away, they will visit each other. Class. Walking alone on the road, every stranger I met will nod with me and say “bonjour”. Every night, you can see the moon rising from the grape field to illuminate the large vine at the door. At 11 am, the moon refused to fall, and there were stars that could be seen without looking up. The life here is so beautiful like a painting. After I left Nanfa to Paris, I also saw this painting. It was a painting in Miller in the Olympic Museum of Art. There are grape fields in the painting, the moon, and cows. This is how I saw the village I saw before going to bed.
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Originally it was going to stop after the trip to Europe, but there was a slight voice behind the travelers who met during the journey, “Sunshine, beach, grape wine is really beautiful, but life should not be Just like this, there is another side? “I came to Iraq. For me, this is a very unfamiliar country. I only know that this is Mesopotamia, the birthplace of the two river basins. One of the most recommended countries for travelers. But what does it look like now? Language is completely unreasonable, different lifestyles and cultural customs, and there are very few travel information on the Internet. How can I quickly integrate into the local area? I chose to be a sofa and lived directly into the local house. The key is that the general sofa is willing to communicate, and I will say some English.
I opened the trip to Iraq, Iran, Iran, Oman, and the UAE and Middle East countries in this new way of travel. Like the locals, eat their favorite food, meet and pray with their family members, see the scenery they like with friends, go to the graduation ceremony of their sisters, listen to the story that happened on them … Of course, the topic is Avoid war. For me who has lived in a peaceful country since I was a child, war is very far away, but every adult I have encountered here has experienced war, injured, and lost loved ones … It is Moser, the second largest city in Iraq. Once, this was a beautiful place, and now it is said that this city is ruined, which is no exaggeration. The war destroyed the ancient mosque printed on the Iraqi coins, destroyed the Museum of History Architecture, destroyed rows of residential buildings, and almost all. I also saw a missile shell on the wall of a ruins. This is also the first time I feel the cruelty and ruthlessness of the war at close range.
Here, I met a local boy. He had just graduated from college in his previous three outstanding results. He worked in a well -known foreign company and his income was already good, but he was still doing part -time jobs to earn out. He has no girlfriend, and he is already saving money for marriage and raising children. I asked him, “How many children do you want?” “Six.” He replied. I was a little surprised because I met a lot of traditional Iraq families to have 10 children, but his father was a university professor, and he was also an intellectual. I thought such a family would be different. Why do you want to have so many children? He said: “Although Mosul is very peaceful now, I am not sure of the future. I don’t know when the war will come. If the war makes me lose three children, then I have three.” I’m sad, this is the answer I didn’t expect.
He then took me around the city. At the opposite side of the street, this is his grandfather’s house, and he died in a war; he went to a place to say that this was his uncle’s house, because of a war, his leg was broken; then he brought it with I walked to one place and said that this was his previous house. In a war, he always lost his brother … When he said this, his tone was bland, as if he was talking about him. The same thing is the same. “Are you scared,” I asked him. “There is no fear. Every war will take away my best friend, my loved family … My heart has long been dead.
I have tears. But his first reaction was to apologize “I’m sorry, make you sad”, the second sentence is grateful, “Thank you for your arrival, with me”, the third sentence is “Honggie, the sunglasses you wear Let’s take a selfie. ” After so much, he is still Lotte and humorous. Continue to walk along the street and meet the girls who are returning home from school. They rushed over to express their likes and Chinese people. They followed all the way and invited me to visit their house. They are warm and innocent. Then I left and saw Al Nuri Mosque’s reconstruction; then the documentary team had just finished shooting “Moser”; there was some beautiful colors of the corner of the Heritage Museum. Hope, it should be here.
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Besides, another episode of travel is to be the world’s first Dubai everywhere. There, I met my Crush, who was in Paris and worked in Dubai. I am even more glad to accept love and pay love than those who like each other. Before that, I always twisted in the relationship between the sexual relationship and cared about the results. But this time, I am a traveler’s mentality. Affairs can also be an experience in travel, like love, isn’t it a kind of experience in life? When it happened, faced it bravely. I think this is inseparable from this along the way, and I meet too many sincere people. They passed me too much love, kindness and praise, and gave me a lot of energy and courage.
Of course there are many surprises. For the first time, I was invited to go to 6 local people as guests; the owner of the sofa in Iran was worried that it was inconvenient for me to spend. I directly gave the bank card and password, and wrote me Persian poem to sing and bless me; After a few swing dances, some people kept walking to me that you are amazing and you are so beautical; in the Middle East, it is feeded in history, humanities, and religion to food health and food; I received the offer from foreign companies; I went to the mountain temple for a week in Thailand to practice mindfulness for a week …
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Endless gratitude. While exploring the world, it is also helping to explore yourself. Thinking of my question before departure, who am I and how to live this life? I still don’t know the answer.
But I know myself better. What will happen in the future, I don’t know, maybe a specific answer may not be so interesting. Just like traveling, full of uncertainty and choice, the result may be very different from expected, but what’s so, I believe myself and believe in each choice. Traveling along the way is still wonderful. I was carrying a 60 -liter backpack alone, traveling for eight or nine months, and became friends with many strangers, accepting their love and energy. Now, I have returned to Hangzhou and wanted to continue this energy, and I also became the sofa owner, giving some help I can help. At present, I have entertaining travelers from 8 different countries. Of course, I will continue. I will always welcome travelers who are still exploring the world on the road. My global travel comes to an end, but the exploration is still going on. Who knows if it will leave tomorrow?
If you are also confused, curious about yourself or curious about the world, then love yourself and be brave. Come on, I can do it, and you can.
