Lifizztheworld's Traveler Profile
- Username
- Lifizztheworld
- Hometown
- Chicoutimi,
Canada
- Member Since
- Jan 8, 2010
- Currently
- Offline
About Lifizztheworld
- Profession
- Architectural Technologist
- Favourite music
- Celine, Celine and a bit more Celine (along with a whole whack more genres!)
- Favourite movie
- Life as a House, Avatar, The Hours, La vie en rose and Celine dvd's (any!)
- Languages
- French & English
- Favourite quote
- "Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky"
- Interests and hobbies
- Traveling and Celine... Celine Dion, that is!
- One thing I want to do before I die
- Finding the perfect words to answer the question "What is it that you love about traveling?". Oh and tell my parents how much I love them...!
- Favourite book
- The Art of Racing in the Rain, Greyfriars' Bobby, Neige, Harry Potters and any Celine Dion biographie!
- My friends describe me as
- Other than the obvious "dag" and "nut" comments; "adventurous", "unsettled", "outgoing yet shy", "Celinelover" and my personal favorite, "Bold"!
- The most amazing moment in my life so far
- The most amazing moment"S" of my life have been on-going since May 2006... However... if I were to single one event, I would have to pick getting the chance to meet Celine Dion in her Las Vegas dressing room... Quite honestly the best moment. Ever!
I decided I'd try to give this blog thing a go... I've never been much
for writing but I've kept a bit of a journal over the last month and I
think I could write it online as well... Can't hurt, right?!
I haven't been very good with email ever since I've started traveling in 2006 but hopefully this may help. I wish I could write a separate novel to each one of yous but unfortunately time runs short
when paying for the net at random places around the world.
I love, love getting all of your emails. It's great to read your
updates on your worlds and lives. Please keep them coming! I am
trying to be better at this game.
So I hope this blog won't get too boring or repetitive... My grasp of
the English language is limited and some words seem to come back a fair
bit! So far, the words "amazing", "stunning" and "beautiful" seem to
be showing up an awful lot! What can I say... The places are!!
So in hope of not boring anyone or sounding greedy and being too
proud. I just want to share a few of the steps along the way with you
and kind of give you a taste of Asia and encourage some to take the
leap and jump on a plane and face the unknown. It has its ups and its
downs. It's part of the game.
So if you're reading, hopefully you'll enjoy. If you're not reading, I can't blame you, I wouldn't be either!! Haha!
Most ask me if I find it hard or "boring" traveling on my own. I
just came across this the other day and I think it sums it up quite
nicely:
"Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty; his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure."
And here are a few other "travel quotes" I'm fond of:
"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign."
"Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey."
"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."
"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and dire, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends."
And this one is so, oh so, fitting!
"Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation."
So until we meet again, either at home or on the road make sure to keep well and safe guys. I'll try not to make the stories last too long during our next conversation!
Cheers
Lani xx
"Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty; his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure."
And here are a few other "travel quotes" I'm fond of:
"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign."
"Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey."
"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."
"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and dire, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends."
And this one is so, oh so, fitting!
"Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation."
So until we meet again, either at home or on the road make sure to keep well and safe guys. I'll try not to make the stories last too long during our next conversation!
Cheers
Lani xx
