June 13- Traveling alone

    To be able to travel alone takes a lot of experience and navigation skills. To be a good traveler one must understand the idea of not letting technology take over the experience. Allowing the body to embrace and take in the beauty is what creates a good memory. A picture just helps recreate the memory that was produced. True travelers explore areas that not many tourist would go to. In my opinion there is a difference between a vacation and traveling. A vacation is something you sit on a beach and tan, traveling is the thrill of learning new things about a country or area that you have never been to. I would not be able to travel to Australia and New Zealand on my own. It takes a person who has traveled out of the country more then once a person who understands how the country works. Teenagers have a harder time to travel and go site seeing because they plan on staying up late and waking up late. While in Australia and new Zealand if i were to stay up late i would be screwed in the morning because we were awake before the sun was in the sky on some days. The reason we were all capable of doing this is because we had a tour guide pushing us and telling us that we only had so many days to do everything we are planning on doing. Technology really changes the way a person travels, now that I look back on the trip I am glad I didn't have my phone because I might of missed out on something really cool. I had to rely on a watch to tell me what time it was rather then looking at my phone every five minutes. It was also cool cause to navigate my way around instead of using a GPS I had to either get a map or really pay attention to where I was going too.

Today we visited an opal factory, everything was gorgeous and I got my mom and me a necklace to share. Then we visited the wildlife centre. I had higher expectations for this zoo but it was not that bad.