Brian, any chance you could make a December 3rd wedding this year in Antigua Guatemala? It’s mine. Would love to have you but totally understand if you can’t make it.
Bleary-eyed, I re-read the message in the comforts of my bed in Hong Kong. Guatemala and wedding where the only two words I registered before replying.
“I will do anything in my power to be there! That plan sounds crazy it just might work!”
Having only recently returned from a trip overseas after the travel-drought caused by the pandemic, I had already caught the wanderlust for the next holiday abroad. That, and the accumulated annual leave days I hadn’t taken made it easy to agree to travel to an exotic destination in a country I would have never clocked as a holiday destination.
I had a time and a date - now to make a trip out of it. Wait, how do you even get to Guatemala?
A quick cursory glance at the flight website of choice confirmed my suspicion. Most flights would be through the United States. Cool.
I have never been to the Americas, so why not grab that opportunity to visit friends…let’s see…Californa and… in New York. Neat.
A mental travel path was starting to form in my head.
Why not spend Christmas with the family in Europe?
That’s destination number 3.
In the end, the destinations were set and the flights booked:
1 month
3 continents
4 countries
5 destinations
8 flights
Now that’s a trip.
Date of departure: 26th November.
Stay tuned!
Personal Note:
This post is the start of something I have never done before - Maintaining a personalized photography blog.
My plan is to keep a daily log during my trip through the lens and to capture my immediate thoughts and ideas in word.
Whilst nothing groundbreaking, it’s something I have had an interest in, in a long time.
We live in a world of disposable media - Our individual memories competing on a platform with the world, eventually being pushed into forgottenness by algorithms.