First time in Miami!

Alex Banx Start Date: Mar 12, 2021 - End Date: May 10, 2021
  • Cultural Exchange
  • Educational/Research Trip
  • Vacation/Personal Trip
  • Miami Beach, FL, United States of America

My Travel Story

by: Alex Banx Start Date: Mar 12, 2021 - End Date: May 10, 2021
  • Cultural Exchange
  • Educational/Research Trip
  • Vacation/Personal Trip
My reasoning for going,  for taking the risk and eating the expensive is probably deeper than I can articulate. It was friends idea. She's meeting me there. I'm coming from Los Angeles, her Virginia.
We both hard working Essential Workers.
I have not called out once since the lockdown or even before that. I haven't had 7 days in a row off from work in over 2 years.  I'm still only taking 5 days for this trip.
We have flights. We locked those in, so now going back, and also, we wanted to get them before the prices went up.
Round-trip was $130 for me so now too bad.
I am wage worker, hourly, I live alone. Financially independent, sadly. But suriving.
I love to travel. I have yet to leave North America because it has not been affordable for me in the past. I keep working hard and long and my finances are becoming more and more flexible.
The stimulus helped me buy my first car. It was a lemon and didn't last 6 months and I spent more on repairs than the car until accepting it was over but I still respect the time we had together. It also helped me get to work safely, I no longer had to take public transportation exposing myself to high concentrations of varies viruses. I have not had as a much as a head cold in over a year. Grateful about that.
Anyways.
This trip feels like it's supposed to happen. I've been trying to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing. Sitting at a desk 9 hours a day, 5 days a week can't be it.
I crave learning more, experience more (of the beauty in the world).
I wish I could go to India or someone that may help me open the mind Chakra but I'd like to spend more than 5 days in India and I'm technically only taking 3 days off work. I don't get paid vacation so I can't afford to take off more than 3 days.
I don't know what will come of this right now, I just know I'm suppose go, I think.
I want to book. Not a self-help book, but a book to help people remember how to enjoy life and themselves. Maybe? There are so many thoughts, I'm not done collecting enough perspective to respectfully and responsibly put a book out that people may be influenced by. But it wants to come out.
I guess this trip is for my book for the world.
A book for anyone in the struggle that knows they deserve better and they work towards better but still don't know how to get themselves out of the despair the struggle can down them in an ethical way. To show people they can be a good person and not have to suffer. We can have fun!
  • Miami Beach, FL, United States of America