My first solo travel - Part 1

Hanoi has been too hot for these two days. When I walked to work in the morning, I looked up at the sky and imagined it is the blue ocean. The clouds seemed to turn into the white canoe surfing on the sea. Gosh, I miss my 1 week solo travel to the middle part of my country. It was my first experience traveling alone, which I will never ever forget. I had written a short blog about it but did not publish on EC. Today, reading noaslpls’s blog, I feel inspired and want to rewrite it. Well, it is going to be a long story because I am not good at writing a concise blog.

Part 1- Before traveling

Three months ago, when I had quit my job and not wanted to find a new one, I decided to have a trip to somewhere.  I love traveling to new places but for many trivial reasons, I just had traveled to few places near where I am living. I thought this time was a perfect chance to do what I love because I was jobless. So I started to think about where to go. At first, the North-West part of my country came to my mind. There are a lot of breathtaking sceneries since it is the mountainous area. But then I thought it would be more enjoyable staying near the sea than mountains under such hot summer weather. Moreover, as I would travel alone for the first time, I don’t want to take risk going to some remote villages and places. A city would be a better choice. In this case, I had chosen Da Nang which is one of the famous tourism destinations in Vietnam.  It is about 800 kilometers from Hanoi to Da Nang and will take you only a hour by plane but about 15 hours by train to go there. I was so excited with my plan and I called my parents to tell them about this. I knew that they would not like my idea but did not expect their strong objection.

They were shocked and did not agree with my plan. They gave me tons of reasons not to do it. The biggest reason is that they think it is dangerous to travel alone. Every day, we hear the news on TV about trafficking, kidnapping, murdering, rapping, transportation accidents... The world is full of danger and they could not imagine their Little Tree was going to spend a week alone out there in a strange city. So I had to persuade them with a lot of rational reasons. Actually I don’t need their permission to do what I love. I would go anyway. I tried not to make them sad but it was impossible since we have different points of view. I think the world is not as dangerous as we always think. Moreover, I just travel inside Vietnam, my country with friendly people and I am old enough to take good care of myself.

Finally, I booked the one way train ticket thinking I would go as long as I can, until I run out of money hehe. And in order to make my parents less worried, I would stay at a friend’s house and visit my relatives there.

Hanoi was so hot that time. It urged me to escape from it as soon as possible. But watching the weather forecast, I knew that I was just going to escape from this oven to another one.

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  • AH_TK, thank you for getting lost and reading my blog :D

    Did you mean that you laughed on my parents? Hmm, actually they was just too worried about me. But see, I'm still fine and kicking after that.

  • tree, I don't know how i came here .. i think i lost my way to find myself here :/

    "The world is full of danger and they could not imagine their Little Tree was going to spend a week alone out there in a strange city. "

    hahahahahahahahahahahah, i laughed a lot on this >> lil tree :p

  • Hi Ha Nguyen,

    The new is better even it's also an oven, hehe.

    In general, our country is safe to travel so you just need to find detail information before travel, it's not difficutly to travel alone. And my next part is pending (maybe forever) because of my laziness T_T. It's so nice to see your comment here. Thank you!

  • What a nicely written blog!

    The oven you were heading to couldn't be as bad as the one you were trying to escape from 'cause it has more water; is that what was on your mind? :D Wish some day I could have the guts to take on a solo travel like you did :) Looking forward to the next parts!

  • IAV, can't agree more with you. But you know, at that time your words meant a lot to me.

  • Tree, I believed strongly that you would firmly start off the journey as your intention despite my feedback should or shouldn't. Everything always needs to have a move at first and you did it. 

  • Thank you IAV :D I still remember when I asked you that I should go or not.

  • Nice to see your traveling blog here and read your journeys.  Keep traveling. 

  • Well I am so glad that my blog has such power to make you jealous haha. I myself just have started discovering my own country and I know there are many beautiful places waiting me out there.

    Thank you so much for your useful advice, I want to pack my stuff and go travelling right now :D

  • Wow,wow,wow! I wanna go, I wanna go hahaha... O.K. I admit you made me so jealous, you're doing a good job to improve your country's tourism with this blog :)

    Btw, Let me give you an advice: do whatever you want now and if you really like traveling, do not hesitate and keep on doing it.

    "The world is a book and those who don't travel read only one page" St. Agustine.

    Look forward to read another chapter :)
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