I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.

I've got the itch to travel again. It's almost a tradition for me to go on a backpacking trip somewhere every other year. Maybe it comes from my 14 years working for the airlines, and flight tickets were readily available. Unfortunately, I don't think its in the cards this time around. Instead, I plan on making more trips back to Malaysia, the country I was born in. Just because.

If I were to go to, say, Vietnam or Cambodia or Myanmar again, I think I'd like to hit a few of my favorite places like Hanoi and the Ancient Angkor city, but I would want to focus my budget and time on new places. But I'm actually really interested in Kiev and Bucharest and Nepal. Both are overlooked by tourists and have the benefit of poor economies, so travel would be cheap.

If I could figure out some way of making money along the way, either with travel photography or something else, it'd make it all seem a bit easier to justify the cost of the travel. I guess I've got this unrealistic urge to just be a traveler for a while and shoot things. Perhaps doing short trips around Asia will satiate me. Hell, even doing short trips in Malaysia does me a world of good. It's still pretty much the beginning of the year, and maybe that's why I feel the need to look at the world with fresh eyes. These days, I spend too much time looking at the inside of my house.

Oh well, I might as well post up the top 5 songs that would put me in the mood "to travel".
1. Get Out the Map - Indigo Girls
2. Road Trippin' - Red Hot Chili Peppers
3. Roam - The B-52s
4. America - Simon & Garfunkel
5. King of the Road - Roger Miller (this is an oldie but definitely a goodie)