<aside> 💡 Tl;dr Travelling can get lonely - it’s cool, but you’ll feel like your home stands still when you leave and you will miss friends & family. How do you combat this? Travel with friends, stay in a place for an extended period of time (I.e. 2 months) & make friends with people who live there … or build a company around travel 😌

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I used to think about how cool it was for the people that travel the world, though I never actually wanted to do it - I’ve always been a homebody. A couple years later, and here I am being Mr. Wordlwide. Over the past ~2 years I’ve travelled to:

• Canada (Calgary, Canmore, Banff)
• USA (Phoenix, Miami, Los Angeles)
• Tanzania (Arusha, Moshi, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, Lushoto, Kilimanjaro, Tanga, Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Mkomazi … and more),
• Kenya (Nairobi, Maasai Mara, Amboseli)
• South Africa (Cape Town, Stellenbosch)
• Qatar (Doha)

With extended periods of time specifically in Tanzania, Kenya, and South Africa (almost 1 year).

I’m super happy with the experiences I’ve had travelling - it opens your eyes and gives you new perspective like no other but I have to say shit gets lonely. You’re away from family and friends, don’t feel like you have a base or home, and sometimes it feels like you’re just running away from things. You change and it feels like the world, your home, and the people you know stand still.

“It's a funny thing about comin' home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You'll realize what's changed is you.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

I’m privileged to feel the loneliness that comes with travelling often but there are a couple things that have held me down and that push me to continue doing what I do:

• I got the chance to build an amazing company, CloudSafaris. Travelling has a purpose, it’s not meaningless. When we travel across Africa we’re doing it because we have to for our business - we’re in the people business and are experiencing things ahead of our customers to ensure they have the best experience.
• I get the chance to travel with my friends. I’ve been blessed to build CloudSafaris with my two co-founders Markus & Aidan who I went to university with. We were friends even before starting this company and that’s what makes this journey even more enjoyable, I’m not alone in this.