TRAVEL UPDATE | It Pays to have Plans But Don’t Forget to Enjoy the Spontaneity | Thank You for the Birthday Love. 🧡
Hey beautiful beings,
I haven’t had much time recently to make any videos so I just wanted to leave you with a quick update.
Firstly, thank you to everyone who wished me a happy birthday. Sometimes travel birthdays can turn out a bit lonely but yesterday actually played out really well. I went out to the rehabilitation sanctuary in hopes of seeing some orang utans. They have two daily feeding times and come in from the reserve of their own accord. If they don’t present it’s actually a good sign that they are feeding themselves and no longer need help. Unfortunately none showed up whilst I was there but I was happy to know it was because they’re doing well.
On the way back to Kuching, I made some friends on the bus. A small group of us went for food. After finding out it was my birthday, there was some cake and a couple of drinks to end the night. It all played out very spontaneously and this is something I highly enjoy about traveling. Sometime of the best things play out when you learn to say yes to the moment.
As for tomorrow I’ll be leaving Borneo for Indonesia. Usually I like to loosely map out my travel plans but upon coming here I left it all up to chance. A mistake on my behalf because I didn’t anticipate how expensive this country would be. There are many amazing things to do but unfortunately they don’t fit into my travel budget. A rookie error on my behalf but a lesson well learnt. I’m looking forward to the next chapter. Who knows what might present (the joys of spontaneity) but with a little more plan. 😉
Thanks for being here. 💛
Biggest love to you! | neeQi 🎂
Apologises for all the background noise, sometime it’s challenging to find an ideal space to film.
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Woow! Happy birthday Sarah! WISH YOU ALL THE HAPPINESS AND JOY YOU CAN HANDLE!
And good luck with your trip! Sounds very adventurous! I have never traveled like that! For longer periods of time. seems like a cool thing to do! :D
PEACE!
Thanks so much Reinis! 💛
And if you ever get a chance I would highly recommend trying to travel like this. So many crazy yet wonderful things can happen!
Will definitely do so! :)
The best nights out are always the unplanned ones :-)
Glad you have a great birthday.
Phil
Thanks Phil, I couldn’t agree more! 😁
Happy belated birthday Sarah! Glad you had fun and wish you even more fun during the rest of your travels. And you're right, spontaneity is a luxury we must allow ourselves sometimes :)
Thanks @ange.nkuru! It was a really great day and I look forward to how the rest of the travels play out. Also congrats on receiving the 500SP delegation. I was happy to see your name on the list when the winners were announced. It’s well deserve! 💙
Thanks :), I nearly screamed like a mad man when I got the news. Yeah, it was a great day for me too. Lol
I’m very happy to hear this. 😁
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Happy bday! Enjoy Indonesia!
Thanks Kevin. 😊🧡
like @scolari-ire sad the best nights are the unplanned :-) Enjoy your week :-)
Thanks @benwol! I appreciate it. 😊
That's too bad about the cost of seeing nature there... That was one of my favorite things about my Australia trip was just hiking around the blue mountains for days and hitchhiking across Tasmania seeing where fate would take me. There's something so special and exciting about uncertainty :) I hope you have a good time in Indonesia!
Yeah I guess because back home I’m so use to being able to do things outdoors for free even visiting some of our heritage sites it makes me feel reluctant to pay a lot of money for a similar sort of experience here. But it’s alright, it doesn’t mean I won’t try and source fun and cheap things that work for me. Also I didn’t know you went to Australia. That’s super cool. I’ve never been to the blue mountains but I know it’s a beautiful spot. Thanks for the birthday love Jeff. 💗
Of course bud! You're welcome :) Yeah, I was in Melbourne for like 3 weeks and I worked at a passion-fruit nursery there. Then I was in the Sydney area for 3 weeks and Tasmania for 8 days. It was all amazing! We have these 5 national parks here in Utah that people come from around the world to see, so you have to get a permit to enter them and another permit to camp or raft the rivers and stuff like that. They use the money to maintain everything and keep them beautiful, but the permits are limited so certain times of year they are sold out and you can't go. In some cases there's like a several-year waiting list!
Passionfruit nursery? That sounds interesting haha. Seems you had some good time to visit a very nice spots. I’d love to get to Tassie some time to do some hiking and also checking out Western Australia because the coastline is magical! Funny how when things are so close to home you don’t put them as priorities to visit.
Also the states has some magical landscapes. I loved the months I travelled through California, such diversity in one place and it was relatively easy to explore for free especially when you went to national forest.
It's really true! There's so much in Utah that people travel from far and wide to see, and its been like an hour or two away my whole life, but I've never gone XD I've never even properly gone to the Grand Canyon! I've driven right passed it like 50 times...
I love California, and you're not kidding about the diversity! There's this old map of filming locations for shooting scenes that are supposed to be across the world.
Found one of them:
I'm hopeless with dates, and I believe I wished you, or someone else in error Happy Birthday.
Happy belated birthday, again.
There is always next year.
Budget planning is a difficult lesson to learn especially while travelling, hopefully you got it all sorted.
My only solution for lack of funds is income, and finding ways to generate it. I am getting better at controlling expenses though.
Thanks for the update!
Next years always better. 😉
Thank you for the birthday wishes regardless!
As for my budget, Indonesia is substantially cheaper so I think it will balance out the higher coasts for the things I had to cover here in Borneo. I’m usually good with expenses, I track everything and at the moment I’m getting a little support from Steemit so that definitely helps. 😊
Hey neeqi Happy Birthday....dear...hope you and your family all are well.
Dear...God bless. .you..you are so good i wish God give you all happiness in your life....
Biggest love for you take care...
One small gift for you...
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This is so lovely Afrin! Thank you so much for your love and support. I am very grateful to have you as a friend. 💗💗
thank..you neeqi...i am also so lucky you are my friend..dear...♥♥♥