Ghosts

Ghosts -

Last month, Chasing, I drink with a known travel writer and how two soldiers discuss battle wounds from the same war, we talked about the cycle of traveling to a time to be for many years on the road, the highs, the lows and everything in between. As we wandered the battlefield of memories, we got on the topic Friends and re-visit places. I complained to him of my last exit of Ios, a place I had fallen in love and a place that back there pulling me even now. I think Facebook status updates from friends to see, and it makes me depressed. But I can not go back there, what I miss is the memory, he said, with this as he will be redirected his own experience. Yes, he was right. At the end, he and I talked really was, as we hunt ghosts travel.

As travelers, we have many fond memories. Once in a while, we are lucky, life changing moments on the road to have. This time and place where everything is magical and perfect and the people just go together like yin and yang. These are moments that we wish forever might last. And the places always seem to drag us back to them. I have these beautiful moments- my first stay in Amsterdam, lives in Ko Lipe, Thailand had a month, and lately, a lot of time on the island Ios. In all three of these moments, I found paradise. I found location that I, no matter where I am still vividly remember in my head and still draw me to it in the world. although Above all, I found the people I. with connected and is a life long stay with me

But like all things, those moments come to an end and all of us move to different locations and different life, everyone adheres to this piece of paradise.

We live those memories in our minds often. They are prominent memories in our lives. Every time I we meet the people from this period reminisce always about how great and changed the lives of these experiences were. I stay sometimes in contact with these people more than I do from childhood my friends. I visit them, they visit me, I go to her wedding.

We are talking about back to the places. Reliving those moments. After leaving Ios, could wait until I no longer back. "Next year!" My girlfriend Jill and I said: "We'll be back." After Ko Lipe, I have always tried to return, but could never quite make it.

Maybe fate is.

I know deep down I will not go back to Ios. And I'll never go back to Ko Lipe. And I just back to Amsterdam, but over the years, I have spent so much time there, I have no such thing as a life.

But to Ios or Ko Lipe or La Tomatina in Spain back all I would do to chase the ghosts of past travel.

I would be hunting memories. The sites I went to did not matter. It was the people that I counted this was. While the seats were great, the memories that I had made with the people. It was together that the magic was made. I have refused to go to the island Ko Lipe back, because I would never be as before knew. the following season was back a friend of mine and said it was not the same. She lamented the development, felt people-everything just not right. She has not been back. Like so many, she went to hunt ghosts and came up empty handed.

Whether we try places like Ios or Ko Lipe or head to experience back to hostels we enjoyed the first time, we're just chasing ghosts. I love to visit cities again and again. I love Amsterdam, Thailand, Italy and countless destinations. But back to experience heading moments and places not explore deeper just to chase the past. We try that the initial feeling like a drug addict regain chasing his first high. But we can never get back. Because we never get back the people.

The next year I will be back in Europe. The next year, I could be in Greece. But unless my friends return to Ios, I will not be back. I would be easy to hunt ghosts and disappointment when I would rather be hunting new experiences.

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