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| Looking for a place to rest |
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| Eating a cake |
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| Taking pictures |
I
understood that everyone loves sleeping than anything else when it comes to
relaxing from the tight activities during days,
weeks, and even months. We just love our bed after the busy time. We do,
however, summer time in the hemisphere has something little more than laying on
your bed. Why summer is loved so much? As everyone knows, summer is hot. It is even
extremely hot recently. Yet most people love the summer time more than winter,
which they just hibernate. One of these people is me. I should not have talked
about summer though because that is what I live with every day back home. But
having experienced two times of winter in the States, I tell you “you had
better enjoy summer or you will regret it.” I now value summer as the most
enjoyable time. I have also debunked the thought before coming to the States that
winter is awesome, enjoyable, etc. I am a consistent person, I did enjoy this
year’s summer. Of course, I am not saying that I visited many places more than
one did, stayed in a-5-star hotel, and experimented other lavish things, but I
enjoyed summer with my tag “student.” You know what to expect in the upcoming
story.
It
is not easy to decide where to go in the States. First, the States happens to
be a very large country. This means you have a geographical barrier to see the well-known
cities like New York City, DC, Chicago, LA, Miami, etc. You need to have much
money to break the distance. Flight is extremely expensive for a student to put
in the shopping cart. The price is averagely two to three hundred dollars that
is valid only for one way. If an international student decide to go by plane,
he would not be back soon or even again. The bus option is widely available;
however, it takes hours or days to reach those cities. Another uneasy decision
is made based on the living cost in each state. The accommodation and food are also
very expensive. Sleeping in a half star hotel or a hostel will cost you more
than what you are willing to pay, and the food is plenty and delicious, but you
need to forget if you can’t afford them. Even though these two seem haunting, students
always have their own way to enjoy whenever they go. The key is if you are happy
to whatever you are having during the time of traveling, and there you go; you
enjoy your summer vacation; I will leave you to imagine and measure your happiness
based on your own standard if you ever traveled.
To
pass all the challenges above, we need to adopt backpacker’s style of
traveling. I don’t dare enough to say that you have to become a backpacker; it
is too extreme though, but I dare to say you should adopt the basic skills
which make the backpackers successfully visit as many places as possible with
the limited money. So what my friends and I did was adopting some of these
basic skills in order to keep going while not diminishing the happiness like
everyone does. We finally spent nights in three major cities. Technically
speaking, we saw more than three cities because we transited in different
cities when we were on our way go and back. Most of these cities are not
internationally known, but we saw something new and learn new things that any other cities do not have.
The important part is enjoying the summer vacation by expanding our horizon. My
story in the each visited city will come next, covering different stories such
as funny, boring, interesting things, etc. Hopefully, I will write them all down here before the
school starts.
Hope this gives you an
inspiration.
