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I Want to Leave in 2009? New Year’s Travel Resolutions!

Posted by Admin | January 6th, 2009

I Want to Leave in 2009? New Year’s Travel Resolutions!

Guest Blogged by Brooke, travel writer & fearless world explorer.

When I was still in high school back in 2000, Nina Gordon released an album with a song titled, “2003″.

The lyrics read: I want to meet in 2003. I want to see what the future can bring to me.

Honestly, I always thought the lyrics read, “I want to leave in 2003,” so I would sing along to this song thinking that it was exactly what was going to happen to me. I would leave in 2003 for study abroad in Italy and sing the song in my head the entire journey.

However, I didn’t quite make it abroad in 2003 like I always dreamed, but I did end up leaving in 2004, an event that took a lot of planning and forethought on my part to make one the best experiences of my life become a reality.

Even today, being the veteran traveler that I am, I find that reaching travel goals doesn’t happen overnight. I often spend time planning months, or even a year, in advance so I can make sure to take all necessary steps in the process. Still, I find people amazed and bewildered at how I am able to travel to the places I have traveled to - such comments often followed with wishes that they could do it, too.

Well they CAN do it, too. At this point, my motivational speaker side kicks into full gear, and I repeatedly find myself explaining that it is just a matter of taking that simple, first step of stating when and where. Having a specific goal is the most important part because, usually, comments such as, “Africa might be nice someday,” and, “Kenya is my dream vacation destination,” are not going to get you on that safari photo session ride you have always dreamed about.

So, with the New Year upon us, what better time than now to start making those travel resolutions? Come on, it will only take a few minutes to get started, and even if the lyrics to your song end up reading something like, “I want to leave in 2011,” at least you know that some day your travel dreams will become a reality.