Welcome to Traveling Mark. As you may have guessed, my name is Mark. I travel a lot and like to travel. This journal is my personal blog in which I explain my journey from living a corporate lifestyle of working until one retires to grabbing my life by the horns and turning it into an adventure that never ends. Instead of spending my days going to work, I spend my days traveling around the world – I explore, I dream, I discover. Frank Herbert once said: “Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.” I have awakened my sleeper and turned my life into an exciting non-stop adventure. The stories and pictures from my trips are generously shared on this travel blog.

I was once a guy like you

I got up every morning to go to work where I would spend the best part of each day working for the man. Then I started questioning this whole idea behind working your whole life until you retire to enjoy yourself when you’re old. I could not find any prudence in the formula – what sense does it make to spend the best years of your life working and wait to live an exciting life until you’re old?

First of all, you may not even live long enough to reach the retirement. If that happens, then all you will have known in your life is work. Secondly – if you do live long enough to reach retirement, by the time you get there, you will be too old to fully enjoy the best things this life has to offer.

By the time they are retired, health of most people is not what it used to be. You may also suffer from injuries sometimes during your life so if you put off all the fun things until you’re retired, your taking a long time of waiting during which anything can happen to your body to limit your ability to function.

As soon as I had realized that, I started to turn my life around to set it free from mundane, workaday routine and it’s felt like I’m on a roller-coaster. But there’s so much more to it. Traveling has also helped me to re-establish the inner harmony that once existed between me and the universe but I had near lost it as I had been getting consumed by corporate lifestyle. My life once again makes sense and feels fulfilling. I have turned from being narrow-minded and ignorant to being appreciative and tolerant. This feeling comes with inner happiness that no money can buy.

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
- St. Augustine

I would like to thank you for visiting my blog and hope you enjoy browsing as much as I enjoy traveling and sharing my stories and photos. And let me know if you currently are or are about to travel to an area where I am at the moment. I love meeting and hanging out with other travelers for it is the contact with many kinds of people that liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in us.

See you around,

Mark