Working in a resort, I experience a lot of travelers - all are guests are travelers! I like seeing them come in and out of the resort doing all the touristy stuff in Cebu. I really envy the travelers I see everyday. I love traveling. I really do. I love being placed in a country unfamiliar to me and I have to navigate my way through it. I often joke to my friends that my brain is a GPS. The people I travel with (friends or family) get shocked when I tell them exactly where to go, which turns to take and the schedules of things like the lights shows and trains. I really just rely on google for my information which I research ahead of time - that includes google maps!
So when I tell my friends that I've been to less countries than the number of fingers on one hand, they don't believe me. They even try to look for tells on my face that say I'm lying to them but never find any. That's coz it's true! Japan, China, Hong Kong, and Singapore are the only other countries I've been to. I really want to add more countries to my short list but I doubt that's happening any time soon. I've been ton Hong Kong and Singapore twice, China once and just last August, me and my friends visited Japan (it was my second time as well).
So imagine my excitement when my friend who's now based in Australia, invited me over this coming June! And that's winter for them so it'll be my first taste of winter. I've told myself that the next country I visit will be one I have never been to and all was going according to plan. I've rejected some fun trips (even free trips like traveling with the folks to Japan so they'd have a - ahem - cargador). Australia was my next stop and nothing was gonna stop me.
That is until my sister said she wanted to see the cherry blossoms in Japan this April. Conversation went something like this:
Sister 1 : Jon, what's in Japan that the kids will want to do?
Me: Tokyo Disneyland
Sister 1: Okay. And when will the cherry blossoms bloom?
Me: Around March to April
Sister 1: Okay. Coz we're planning on taking the kids to Japan to Disneyland. Wanna come? (She was asking my other sister)
Sister 2: Let me check my schedule...
Sister 1: Jon, you're coming with us coz we need someone to tour us around.
Me: o.O
I love Japan. I can honestly say I'd love to go back there again. But I had just been there a few months ago and revisiting sites I've been to just a few months back might just bore me. I've tried selling the idea of Korea and Lotte World or Osaka and Universal Studios (If I'm going back to Japan, visiting another region would at least be a level up), but I think the kids' hearts are set on a Disneyland.
No doubt I'm gonna enjoy traveling with my family if our trip indeed does push through but I have half a mind to skip the trip altogether. I travel to gain new experiences and if I'm just going to do a repeat performance of my latest Japan trip, it might just not be worth it.
I'm still super stoked on Australia and will probably tire myself out visiting every nook and cranny of that place. And looking for snow. That's a need for a Filipino boy who has never seen or felt snow in his life. This is gonna be fun!
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