The Highs and Lows of Travel: My Most Memorable Adventures

Traveling has been a hobby I love right from a tender age, and several factors brooded that, one of which is my parents continuous love for traveling, my dad's nature of job at the time, and the big atlas we've got at home back then. Going through it just made me fascinate myself in various countries to experience how life is in those places. However, while traveling sounds appealing to the ear, the same isn't the case in reality, as I've come to have great and worst experiences while traveling, and today I'll be telling you about some of them.

Talking about my best travel experience, today I'll be dating this particular one to several years ago when I was much younger, and that's because I've once shared some of my favorite travel experiences, but this was probably the best before I had those other once I've shared here before, so without further ado, let's get to it. So my favorite travel experience I'll be talking about was just my junior secondary school days; we had traveled to the village after the school holidays.

I had the best of experience while in the village; it was probably my first time of being to the village, as it's the earliest memory I can remember of myself being there, so while in the village I had the best of life, was treated like a VIP by almost every kid in the village, and also had access to different types of food in abundance, unlike how I did in the city.

To crown it all, after spending a month in the village and being on our way, I had one of the most satisfactory journeys of my life, although what took us back to the city was a truck, but then it was filled with different types of fruit, which already got my mouth watering. Good news came when the driver of the truck told us we could eat as much as we could throughout our journey. It was like heaven on earth for me because my favorite fruit banana was there, and I ate till I had no space to eat anything again, making the journey a memorable one.

On the other hand, talking about my worst travel experience, I'll say it was my journey to you've state for my NYSC. Even though NYSC was something I've been looking up to for many years and has fascinated myself in that uniform throughout my college days, I can't help but say the actual experience of the travel that led there was a disaster; traveling all the way from Lagos to your state took almost forty-eight hours, probably due to the bad road coupled with the faulty vehicle.

After leaving Lagos, we've hardly passed two states before the vehicle broke down, and we had to wait for the driver to get a mechanic and fix it. That took about an hour, and we're on the move again. Throughout the journey, the vehicle breaking down happens to be a reoccurring thing. Not forgetting how choked we're in the vehicle due to the numbers of passengers; enduring all of that for those long hours wasn't an easy thing for me, and I can remember on several occasions throughout the journey I found myself contemplating going back home and ditching the NYSC.


After two days of being on the road, we finally arrived at our destination, but that didn't relive me for a single second because right from the gate of the NYSC camp, we were welcomed by military personnel who just started drilling us from the gate, making us do all sorts of exercise routines before entering. To crown it all, the weather at the start wasn't bearable; it was scorching hot, and that was the same throughout my stay in the state.

Even though I did later come to feel at home in the place and had some good times, I can't help but say it was one of the worst travel experiences I've had in years.


All photos are mine.


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Travelling is also a hobby I take joy in. It is something I enjoy doing and i absolutely loved reading about your experiences!

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Yea it's a wonderful thing to do, and always filled with pleasant memories.

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Hmm...I could see how your first experience travelling was wonderful especially with how you were permitted to eat as many fruits as you can until there was no room for more in your stomach. Lol

I also had one worst experience of my travel to Kebbi state where I was first posted for my Nysc camping. It was a 15 hours journey and stressful, I was hell tired that night when we arrived the camp at 1 am, only to face another tough time taking my bed and other stuff to my room which was very far from the gate. I don't want to experience such again.

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Yea difficult points in our lives comes with different experiences, just like your camp traveling situation and sleeping issues.

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One of my most memorable moments was traveling to my moms hometown in the village. I can quite relate to your experience, we were always treated as VIPs which makes us wants to remain there.

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Oh that's good to know, visiting the village is amazing because of the level of enjoyment there.

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Living in the village as someone from the city is just some thing else. They just treat you like a king.šŸ˜‚

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Yea that's true, I always enjoy my visit to the village.

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It's funny how travelling for NYSC has the not-so-palatable travel tail for a lot of people. Lol. But it's funny how I'm imagining all the goodies you enjoyed on your trip back to the city from the village. I can relate to this because I grew up in a village, and that VIP treatment? It was specifically for kids from Lagos. Lol.

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Smile NYSC journey is always full of drama, probably because most of us are use to our comfort zone, being transferred to a long distance and the bad road just leave a bad experience.

Hehehe if not that you've left the village, I would have come to pay your village a visit, so I can enjoy such VIP treatment again.šŸ¤£

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My village has been transformed ooo. Everyone has moved to Lagos finish. šŸ˜‚

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