Traveling has always been something that makes me smile when I think about it but then, when I think about some of my experiences in my country, I feel sad about it because some of the experiences are just nothing to write home about. In the past year (2024), I think that was when I traveled the most in all the years of my life. And with every trip I embarked on, there was something that made the experience memorable. But for most of them, I had really good experiences and it encouraged me to still not get tired of traveling with every opportunity I get.
For this prompt, we are asked to talk about our best and worst transport experiences. One thing is certain, if one travels in a personal vehicle the experience most times will be different and more pleasant than traveling with a commercial vehicle. I mean, all the stages of the journey will be almost as you want it to be because you can stop when you want to and keep going if you wish to. You don’t have to explain or inconvenience others for your decisions as you travel but this is not possible when you travel commercially.
Thinking back to all my journey I have had, my worst experience of transportation was traveling to a very far distance on a motorcycle. Last 2 years, my brother and I travelled to another state to visit my sister for her sign out from the university. Going was a little bit smooth but going back home, we had to take a motorcycle to the train station and my sister’s place was really far from the train station. We travelled for over 2 hours on a motorcycle just to get to the train station. The journey was really tiring to the point that I wished that I could just stay there with my sister.
For the first time, I wished I wasn’t traveling. When we got to the train station, we got there late so there was no train available because the train had just moved. We bought our tickets and had to wait for over 4 hours for the next train to come. That was going to be our first train experience and we were barely pumped about it after waiting those long hours for it. When the train finally came, we were so happy that we are finally going home. When we tried entering, there was quite a traffic because everyone was in a rush since the train has a time that it moves.
When we finally entered, we tried to look for our seats but to our surprise, some other passengers have occupied the seats and we couldn’t say anything about it because they said it was their seats and besides that, we were just happy that we have at least entered the train but then, it was obvious that they compromised and cheated most of us. Despite all of these unpleasant experiences, I still enjoyed my journey especially when the train was in motion. I didn’t quite enjoyed my first experience as I envisioned it but I’m glad that I have an experience of it.
My best transport experience was traveling in a car. It was a private car and I was with people I know. We chatted a lot about different things and so far, that has been my best experience. We faced some challenges on the way but for the fact that we had each other, everything still felt right. I don’t have so many worst experiences but that particular one is one I won’t forget in a hurry.
This is my response to the 4th prompt of the #februaryinleo.
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