April 2012
43 posts
26 DAYS UNTIL MY NEXT ADVENTURE: AUSTRALIA!
Calling all photographers
I want a new camera for my travels, but when it comes to photography and cameras I’m pretty clueless. I want a DSLR camera (preferably for beginners) which is relatively cheap; under £500. At the moment I have my eyes on the Nikon D3100, but I’m still unsure. HELP please!
Rant of the day
I’m so sick of the way people just expect you to live your life a certain way, and if you deviate from this ‘ideal’ way of life, you are frowned upon. Go to school, go to college, go to university, get a proper grown up job, get a boyfriend, get engaged, get married, have a baby… die. I’m sorry, but I am not buying in to this lifestyle I’m just ‘expected’ to have. Now, I’m not saying I don’t ever want to get married or have children, because one day I guess that’s what I’ll want (eventually). I’ve done the whole education thing (which is a start), and despite my grandma constantly saying to me: “so when are you going to use this degree of yours and get a proper job?” I do intend to use my degree one day. As I always say to her: “It’s not bloody going anywhere!” There’s no expiry date on a degree. But there’s an expiry date on life. And there’s an expiry date on youth. If you can’t travel the world, have new experiences, and enjoy a life of no-commitments when you are a still young, then when can you?! Besides, I think it’s those people that are living this so-called ‘ideal’ lifestyle that need to take a long hard look at themselves, not me.
“We are so often caught up in our destination that we forget to appreciate the journey, especially the goodness of the people we meet on the way. Appreciation is a wonderful feeling, don’t overlook it.”
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“What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do,
especially in other people’s minds.
When you’re traveling, you are what you are
right there and then.
People don’t have your past to hold against you.
No yesterdays on the road.”
—William Least Heat Moon
