{"id":78,"date":"2011-05-01T11:17:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T11:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/110.4.45.173\/~jippworl\/?p=78"},"modified":"2014-05-12T08:29:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T00:29:00","slug":"about-me-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/about-me-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural Born Traveler?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I\u2019d like to think that I was probably a natural born traveler. The passion or at least the intention of traveling was always there way before I could even afford to travel anywhere outside of my own hometown.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You see, I bought this for my own 12<sup>th<\/sup> birthday promising to myself that I would one day come to the place and sit right from where the picture in the postcard was taken.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2454 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 3px solid gray; margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px;\" title=\"My wish card at the thames river\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSCN8806.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSCN8806.jpg 688w, https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSCN8806-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">True enough, in May 2009; I took my first flight out of the country to see how the dream of 12-years-old kid would finally be fulfilled.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And there I was, sitting on the side of<strong> Thames River<\/strong> in London to witness the wish that I made 19 years ago finally turned into reality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2455 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 3px solid gray; margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px;\" title=\"Thames river 19 years later\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"335\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It felt like a big part of my life had just been completed. Heh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Then I knew my love for traveling wouldn\u2019t just end there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">IT WAS JUST THE BEGINNING. \u00a0And I was right. I never stopped.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The world is SO BIG and I want to see as much of it as possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2456 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 3px solid gray; margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px;\" title=\"me at the thames river\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"447\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/c.jpg 552w, https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/c-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I don\u2019t know when I would ever stop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">IF EVER.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For now, I just want to keep doing it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019d like to think that I was probably a natural born traveler. The passion or at least the intention of traveling was always there way before I could even afford to travel anywhere outside of my own hometown. You see, I bought this for my own 12th birthday promising to myself that I would one day come to the place and sit right from where the picture in the postcard was taken. 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