Travel Day 002 – Boston to San Juan, PUERTO RICO
I felt terrible. I hadn’t slept all night, my backpack was way too heavy and I seemed not properly prepared to leave home and my old life to travel around the world…
Nightly arrival at the Beach in Puerto Rico
Obviously I was prepared as best as I could be, considering that I never travelled for an extended period of time with a backpack before. Since I decided to leave for my world trip about 5 months ago, I had used every spare minute after work and on weekends to prepare as much as I possibly could. Still for some reason it felt that there was so much more that I should have read or prepared before I took off…
It was too late now. I picked up my heavy backpack, said good-bye to my sad-looking empty apartment and told myself that everything would be ok. Whatever life would throw at me from now on would probably be a challenge and I would have to deal with it alone, but it would be ok. Actually I remembered what a traveller had told me who I met a while ago. He said the time before you leave is very stressful, but once you leave, it will be all good and there are no worries in the world…
I was more than hoping that he was right when I left for the airport to fly to Puerto Rico. Here it was another good-bye as I was leaving my home in Boston and my old life behind for a short visit in the Caribbean. Even if Puerto Rico wasn’t really a part of my Round the World Trip, it was still the beginning of my travels and my first destination…
Actually it seemed already that my travel friend was right. Once I was on the plane, there was nothing more that I could do or prepare and so I just had to let it go, relax and look forward. Especially after I arrived, had dinner and walked down to the beach, I knew that he was right: There was nothing really to worry about and probably even home and old life would soon be forgotten… : )
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