Apparently, the apple doesn’t fall far…
When looking through some old photo albums this Christmas evening, I found these photos of my father, when he visited Taekwondo and Karate gyms during a trip all the way to Australia in 1979. It is funny to think, how the world has gotten smaller and I feel like anywhere on the planet with BJJ is easily reachable for me during this trip. Australia must have seemed extremely far away back then. Compared to today where we have google, forums, email and facebook, imagine being in a far away country with your gi in the (most likely brown and orange) suitcase, flipping through the phonebook to find local gyms and walking in there with no knowledge of who to meet or how training would be compared to home. The flight ticket was ordered by phone through a travel agent, handwritten and had seven stopovers on the way. What an adventure it must have been!
I hope to find similar adventure on my trip. I obviously seek that feeling of being far, far away from home, in some little corner of the world that I know nothing about and couldn’t possible read about in a travel brochure. Experience things and meet people who I will remember for the rest of my life and can tell my children about to inspire them to live life to the fullest. There are millions of amazing adventures like that out there in the world, just waiting to be discovered, what are we all waiting for?
One life, one chance.
georgette
That’s wonderful… what an inspiration!
Dec 25, 2010 @ 18:48
Michael
Hey Christian!
I hope you get a fantastic trip !
I was just wondering, how money have you put aside to this trip? It sounds really expensive.
Best regards
Michael :)
Dec 27, 2010 @ 22:13
graugart
I don’t really know exactly how much the trip will cost, but i don’t think it will be too expensive compared to staying at home and paying rent/food here.
Basically, I need to pay for most of my transportation on the trip. Some places I teach helps me with the flight there. Everywhere I go, I sleep in a gym or on someones couch and most people are helpful with sharing their food with me.
I have yet to be invited to train somewhere where I have to pay for the training.
So for the most part, I only need transportation costs, which I estimate will be around 25000-35000 Danish kroner. Of course I will buy food and drinks besides what I get from people, but that will mostly be cheaper than here at home anyways.
So all in all it might actually be cheaper for me to travel the world, than staying at home for those four and a half months :)
Dec 27, 2010 @ 22:56