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Travel Mission

 

Since 2009, I am travelling around the world telling people that travel can change your live, if not the way you see your life. Meeting new people and having new experiences forces us to undergo an inner change that we are not aware of.

Constant Traveller is an attempt to wean young travellers off the beaten path when it comes to choosing their destinations. The blog helps travellers get as far off the standard tourist trails as possible. Be it the glitz of Monaco or the barrenness of Madagascar, I have gone further and deeper into each destination I have travelled to. Of course, this forced to tap into my travel planning skills by booking everything on my own – a skill that I didn’t know I had before I began travelling.

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A happy first-time traveller at Phu Quoc island off Vietnam

For too long though, I have saved money for 11 months at my full-time job as a journalist and spent it all on my one month travels. I am changing the game currently. I hope to leave on a round-the-world trip in 2020 and cover as many countries as possible without facing monetary and visa issues. I am fixated on covering the Americas first with at least a year to travel around South America and Central America. After checking the Caribbean, US and Canada over another 6 months, I plan to move to Western Europe for three months and then getting to Scandinavia. From there to Russia, Central Asia and China will probably take another year before spending more time in Australia, New Zealand and Asia. I plan to return to India and then set off to tackle the Middle East and Africa once I have enough contacts and expertise to navigate the more difficult countries in the area.

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Over the next few years I am going to go from having a day job to becoming location independent

Okay, by now you probably think I’m crazy. Let me assure you I am as sane and comfort-minded as you. However, the call of the travel path is too strong for me to resist. The world is going crazier by the day and I am getting older every day. If I am to truly understand the world and my place in it, it makes logical sense that I go around the world to see how others are using their lives and making sense of it.

Until I organise and leave for my life-altering journey, I wish to assimilate like-minded readers like you into a community that takes charge and advocates the same things I do – be it slow travel or exploring the deepest corners of the planet. You, dear reader, will have ever-greater responsibilities as time goes by.

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There’s lot to look forward to in the months ahead

In a few months, I will begin a crowdfunding programme to collect funds for the round-the-world trip called #CT2020. I will match whatever amount is collected with an equal amount raised by myself. At the end of the trip, I will write a memoir of my travels and include the names of the top 100 donations in the book. I hope you will support me in this cause.