overland wannabe

When I scroll down the notable blogs list, a name caught my attention immediately: “overland wannabe”. http://overlandwannabe.blogspot.com/ So I took a step further to see what it’s really about, and it’s just as I imagined, a blog like a travelling bible. What’s more, there’s even a more overwhelming tagline on the main page, “the ultimate escape”.

“Escape” is being used frequently in our high-paced life nowadays, even the ad slogan in the cinema on High St. is “your nearest escape”. People are suffering from high pressure and overloaded work obviously; they badly need to take a breath. Compared to normal ways like movie time or tea chat with friends, an oversea trip is a more effective, romantic and head-to-toe relaxing to ease every nerve. So the blog targets our social issue precisely, in other words, very timely.

Those blog entries are especially relevant and compelling to me because I want to be an “always on the way” person myself. And I’m so obsessed with photographing the same things in different places, as you can see from the slides to the right. I think this sense of change and adventure may be formed in my childhood, when my parents took me to lots of trips which could be considered as dangerous to my peers. We went whitewater-rafting and hot-air balloon riding, we ate weasel, zebra hot dogs, even cooked cockroach with local people as a great delicacy. Every different trip opens me up for something new and exotic, therefore, it’s a shortcut to experience a different kind of life which I have never approach to.

The “overlandwannabe” is like a mini-edition of the lonely planet, Europe section. Btw, the lonely planet is forbidden in China because it lists Taiwan as an independent country… I still remember how excited I am when I first found one in Barnes and Nobles. I already add the blog link to “my favorites”, I’m sure I’ll get some great ideas for my future escaping journeys from it!