Wanderlusting

So 2011 was the year the travel bug bit. I revisited this entry I wrote last year and a few things have sprung to mind:

• I haven’t written a Minor Details entry in the longest time! Actually, I already have a list; I’ve just been putting off the writing task.
• My thoughts haven’t changed: I still want to work for an airline (because I want to go places) and I want travel to be my investment.
• I really did go all-out in terms of traveling last year. My passport is no longer pathetic.

I’m a frugal traveler. Or, at least, I scrimp on what I can (e.g., airfare, land transportation, accommodation) and splurge on the finer things in life (e.g., food!!!). For now, my bank account can only afford to take me to nearby destinations (i.e., Asian countries). But reading travel magazines and viewing videos such as the one below only stimulate my yen to travel and explore the world.  

Now is that brilliant or is that brilliant? According to the Mashable article that featured the video:

San Francisco-based Kien Lam quit his job, bought a plane ticket to London and then spent 343 days traversing the globe and snapping photos along the way.

Ah, if only quitting your job to tour the world were that easy.

Needless to say, Lam’s time-lapse project is incredibly inspiring. Of course I plan to save up big-time and explore the other continents (with luck, before I hit 30). Like you, I have a growing list of places I want to visit in my lifetime and seeing the breathtaking scenery in this video has only rendered me impatient — I want to go places, and NOW.

But my travel fantasies will have to wait. In the meantime, I am totally ripping off this idea and putting together a collective video of my travels at the end of the year.