Travelling and I....continued

I love to travel. I am a travel fanatic. These traveling posts are inspired by a friend of mine, who asked me to write about my travel experiences. Thanks a lot. I never knew it could be so fun. I am reliving those great moments again and I would keep on writing.

Many times I feel, if I were given a choice I would keep on traveling always. Visit new places. Meet new people. Experience new cultures and engross new experiences. "Into the wild" is one of my all time favorite movies. Its about a bright young 23something Harward graduate who abandons his family and chooses to travel and dreams about going to Alaska. Its a very nice and touching movie about how life could be so different for different people. Whenever I am tense, I feel like leaving everything behind, the relations, the responsibilities and just follow the hero of "Into the wild". Afterall its my life and I decide how to live it. I love that movie. It has a tragic end where the central character dies at the age of 25 in the forest after eating a non-edible fruit. Its sad. But its awesome.

I like to roam around with hippies a lot. Santa Cruz is a city of hippies. The motto of Santa Cruz is "Keep Santa Cruz weird". This is one of the best places to stay in United States with tourism in abundance and a great weather. I love this town. Just yesterday, I was taking a stroll on beach and I happened to meet a traveler who was traveling for last entire year. All he had was the motivation and the big backpack on his back. We chatted for almost half an hour. We discussed lots of things about his travel, about US about India. It was a great moment. He lived in New York and he was traveling across united states by taking free rides from people. Working in between for money. Sleeping on floors. He was in California for last 6 months and his journey was coming to almost end. He said, its painful, with no money, no telephone, not much dressing, no family, no girlfriend its hard. But I love it. The feeling of gazing at skies from the roof top of a hill with ocean beside you is beyond description. Its a heavenly feeling which only true souls can understand. I could related to so many things this guy was telling.

Traveling is so much fun. I remember my early school days when to get to my home town from my hostel during some breaks. I sometimes used to hitch hike if my bus was missed. Many times I had traveled in trucks with having conversation with truck drivers about different things. As a kid I used to love it since there was some kind of pride in it as I used to feel great to travel alone such long distance with so many strangers :) It was fun. I learned how to drive in 8th standard from my mom. I used to take pride in driving so early too :P haha. Some people take pride in so many different things. The good old days makes me nostalgic and I feel life was so cool and so relaxed as a child. There was so much of fun. There was so much enjoyment. Pure, joyous and innocent enjoyment which was not limited with some specific aspirations. Those days makes me feel too nostalgic.

So traveling was an integral part of life always. Be it in terms of treks or otherwise. How different were those days. How I passed through so many phases. How much I hate the current phase. I guess, age 25 to 30 is the worst age in a person's life since suddenly he is changing from that young boy to a mature adult with responsibilities. I hate this change. Traveling becomes less as the office space takes its toll. Still I manage to travel. Still I manage to enjoy my bit. Traveling in US could get monotonous after a point of time since many times the culture is uniform and except topologies nothing changes. Same food, same chains of hotels, same people, same language. So after a point you feel you do not want to. Atleast I feel that way. I feel travelling in India is way better than this. It is way hectic and troublesome. But are not these things called the experiences? I like it that way. The villlages, cultures, innocence, non exposure. So many things, so many differences. I love them.

Some day I wish I would be able to travel the entire world. Some day I wish I could roam around without any worries behind me. Gazing at stars lying on beach with moon by your side and the constant exploding of tides on shores, is a great feeling. I had done that once back in India. I want to do that again here, in Santa Cruz. I want to do so many things. I want to have so many things that managing all becomes really difficult :(

I wish, some day, I will have done most of them. I love it that way. Go and do what you want to do. Feel it. Experience the experience because tomorrow the same conditions might not stay the same. Life is so beautiful if seen with the correct set of eyes. I wonder why people spoil it with selfish attitudes. I wish so many things .....