Tourism - Is this all We Can do?
Over the last 15 years, I have been fortunate enough to go to countries that I used to consider luxurious and expensive, those that would be every traveler’s dream and those that will make most people speculate on the intentions of that person that has been there. Like one of my friends asked “what the hell took you to Turkey?” In some cases I have ended up in these countries on official business but in many cases it was out of my love for travelling. The more I travel, the more I love. I have now set myself a challenge. The number of countries I have visited must be equal to my age. That means that in the next few years, I have to do a lot of travelling to catch up with my age and it is only then that I will slow down to a manageable rate of one country a year. My story goes back to my first long haul travel to Turkey in 1996 (before that the farthest I had been was Lamu, an island off the Kenyan Coast) where for the first time I ca...