Traveling is one of my hobbies I cherish so much. It will interest you to know that I have traveled to 16 different states in my country so far, and that's how much I love traveling adventures. Each of these movements came with different experiences, both the good and the bad. Traveling outside my country is one of the top things on my bucket list, and hopefully I will love to experience this someday if my resources permit it. I am sure this is going to be one big adventure I will love, especially finding myself in my favorite country.
I have had one of my best travel experiences and likewise my worst travel experience, which I am about to share with you in this post. As much as I experienced a very smooth, zero-stress traveling experience on my first flight, I won't consider it my best traveling experience. There's this unique experience that comes with road trips. Even though road trips can be stressful, especially with our Nigerian bad roads, it still has a good side you can enjoy while traveling by road. And so one of my best travel experiences was the time I traveled to Plateau State for a one-week training event.
It's been twelve years since I had this exceptional traveling experience, and yet the memories and the impacts of it are still very fresh in me. You know, traveling is an amazing opportunity to explore new places, meet new people, eat a new kind of meal different from your cultural food, as well as learn other people's culture. There's a whole lot of new things that one can get from traveling, and that was exactly what I got at plateau state.
The journey itself was super adventurous, even before we landed at the plateau. We hired a vehicle since we were many, and that made it possible for us to stop at so many beautiful places on our way to plateau, exploring different environments. If I can vividly remember, we stopped at about 6 different places while on the trip; some of them were to explore nature, while others were to eat and study landmarks. These actions are all a nice experience, if you ask me, and as a group, we jumped into different topics, discussing them amongst ourselves and adding knowledge in between.
While at the plateau, we mixed up with the Northerners, who began to teach us their language. Wow, at least I learned greetings in Hausa language. They fed us for the 7 days we spent there, and of course some of the meals we ate were their native food. At first, I didn't like it, but at a point, I gave in to their meals. It's all adventure, right? Lol. It was Christian training, and we were so comfortable with the brethren, and in all our break time, some of the guys took us around different places; even at one of the mountains, it was so beautiful to behold. They also gave us a sneak peek of their culture while at the state. Till date, I still have a friend from that state, the new friend I made from the travel.
My experience with this particular trip was so good that I can't express it enough in writing, but yeah, it has stood, and hopefully I will experience the best in the future.
Unto my worst traveling experience... imagine traveling with your family for 20 hours on the road, a journey that was supposed to be a maximum 12 hours. This was one of my worst travel experiences. It happened 4 years ago, when my husband and I and the kids traveled to our hometown for Christmas celebrations. We ensured to fix our car, changed all the tyers , and did wheel balancing and alignment. All these measures were put in place for a safe ride, and yet just 3 hours into the journey, our car broke down. A fresh part of the car was completely damaged. It was on the 24th of December of that year. It took us hours to get the new part, fix the car, and continue. The bad road was also another trouble, which triggered heavy traffic on the road.
We were totally exhausted; the kids were too and didn't stop troubling my life. At a point, I wish we didn't travel in the first place. The traffic was so severe that we got home on Christmas Day when our people were already in the living room eating and celebrating Christmas. The journey never went as planned, but I took it as part of life's ups and downs. At last, we still had quality time with our people before returning back to the city.
What's your best or your worst traveling experience? Feel free to share !
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