World Travels by Surf Punk Kid
I’m kind of lucky, I know and others will tell me, that I have the opportunity to travel so much. It’s kinda given me a wondering soul and I’ve had a hard time settling down anywhere.
It’s all my parents’ fault I think because I was the kid of a diplomat and we used to pack up and move every three or four years, round the globe to some faraway distant place, in some different house, some different neighborhood. It was great in a way to see the sights but I never got the chance to settle down, make some friends, like, real friends, long term friends. I would make new friends whose friendships would last about three or four years, then we’d pack up again and move. Sometimes, my friends and I kept in touch with letters or emails or maybe once a year visits like around Christmas time, but eventually like all good things, they came to pass.
Moving all the time around the world, traveling and staying in all the luxury hotels with your parents was kinda weird sometimes, but life was never boring. I went to school in the private schools with all the other kids in the same situation as me. Anyways, I got to experience a lot and when my formal schooling was done, I did what came naturally to me. I traveled around the world.
Hey, you might be asking, where’d I get the name Surf Punk Kid. Well, when I was 10 years old, we moved to Australia, Sydney, actually and I learned to surf. I thought it was cool and from then on, whenever we lived by an ocean, I was surfing on the waves. That was fun, you feel so totally alone out there on the blue and white, just me and my board and the waves. It was cool. I guess that’s where my name came from and kinda how this site came into being.
As I said before, I traveled as a kid all the time. We were always settling in and just when ‘ya felt settled in and had found some friends to hang out with, hello! We were moving again and this habit has continued for all my life.
When I was young and traveling with my parents, we stayed in luxury hotels in the coolest places in the world. But when my school was finished and I wasn’t quite sure what exactly I wanted to do besides travel, I started some big time traveling, with my board and without. It was then that I experienced the rough edges of traveling on a somewhat limited budget. I stayed in some dive hotels, I mean, man, really dive, low down. I even caught some bed bugs once and spent the second night at this hoedown hotel sleeping on the chair instead of the bed. I didn’t even know what had bitten me and given me a red rash all over, but I got outta there on the second night and found me a doctor who gave me the bad news.
Sometimes I was backpacking. Well, after I grew up and my father refused to support my traveling addiction anymore, I was usually backpacking. But when we were kids, I got to experience the finer things in travel like hotels and great fancy restaurants. Sometimes on my travels, I was looking for work in that particular country. Sometimes, if the country had a shoreline with great waves, I was traveling only to ride the waves.
So, I’ve experienced all kinds of countries, all kinds of hotels, some luxury hotels, some cheap hotels and some right stinking rotten. I consider myself a globe traveler, having visited some really great places, like Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean. I have to admit that there are some continents I haven’t quite made it to yet, including the Artic and Antartica. But I’m in no rush to get there because it’s too darn cold. I haven’t been to Asia yet, but there’s still time.
Anyways, sometimes I’m gonna write about luxury hotels, sometimes the cheap hotels and sometimes the really bad hotels. Sometimes I’ll put up my travel photos when I feel like it. Sometimes, I’ll just write about my experiences, again, they are good, bad and ugly. Sometimes I might even write about some cool restaurant I’ve found, some cool people, some happening place in some city in some other country.
Like I said, I’m writing about wherever I travel, what I experience, be it in Africa, Europe, or the Caribbean. I’ve even traveled to the Middle East, but that was when I was a whole lot younger and the world was less screwed up than it is today. Stayed tuned and enjoy travels with the Surf Punk Kid.
See ‘ya later, Surf Punk Kid