About The Trip
 The comments vary massively when you explain the concept of a trip like this to different people. From the complete support and personal recommendations as to what to include down to the fear and doubting. All these reasons are exactly how we feel entering into this trip. We are feeling tremendous excitement, awe, fear, doubt, amazement, wonder, trepidation and many others (consult Roget's Thesaurus). All of this is healthy. The one thing we do know about this trip is that we do NOT know how it will end. But, how did it start?........Well, a number of things. Firstly both Zoe and Justin love to watch documentaries about pretty much anything, but places (home and abroad) seem to sate our appetites more than anything else. Wanting  to reach out and touch, smell, taste and feel these places is quite a force (and you do look silly licking the Telly). Secondly we were in Koh Lanta, Thailand when the Tsunami hit. We were on the beach, watched it roll in, then legged it up a mountain. Once the adrenalin dies down many emotions come into play, but the main thing that you realise when you face death (This was not the 1st time for Justin) is that you are really alive and it really could just end in a blink. Life is WAY too short. Thirdly, Justin has spent 11 years working in sales for a variety of people, but at the time was working for a company where a number of directors had left him with a bad feeling about his job and he decided that nobody had the right, no matter how much they paid him, to make his life sad. All this and more just made this trip more than a niggling thought..... so where are we going? |
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