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The trip of a lifetime. Tokyo, Japan, what else? It had always been my dream, my ultimate goal, a journey to the land of the rising sun. Last spring, while laying in my bed, I found very cheap tickets to Vancouver so I called my brother. "Hey, didn't you want to go to Vancouver? I found cheap tickets and the dates are around my birthday, I mean, if you were wondering what to give me", I said, as a joke of course. To my surprise, he answered, "I'm actually not going to be in town around that time, I'm going to Seoul for business"... a small pause, and then he says "why don't you come? they are paying for the hotel, just pay your ticket... and as a birthday present I'll pay the ticket to Tokyo, I mean, we should! if we are already going to be so close". I felt something in my stomach, could it be? Could my dream become true? I checked tickets, I had my credit card, name, number, security code, buy? Before we knew it, we had our tickets to Seoul, and a couple of days later, to Tokyo. I was hallucinating! This couldn't be real! Well it was, I mean, I think it was, until this day I'm not sure if I really went or I just dreamt it. Tokyo was an amazing city! All that I could've hoped for, and a lot more! The food is something special, ramen, takoyaki, okonomiyaki, nigiri, udon, mochi, matcha everywhere; we even tried the poisonous fish fugu, toasting sitting on some old tatamis in a local restaurant, not sure if it was going to be our last meal (a little bit of drama, why not). So, I did it! Tokyo was mine! Now what? On that trip, I expected to find a city that is always vibrant, with friendly people and food that blows your mind away. A city where it doesn't matter where you look, everything is a postcard. And I did! All that and more! So, was it the end? I achieved my ultimate travel goal, and I found everything I was looking for, but what I didn't expect to find is that the journey never ends, when I asked my self "now where to go?" the whole world jumped into my mind. Rome! Paris! Bangkok! London! Argentina! Vancouver! (I still haven't gone there, even with the cheap tickets.) For a long time, I thought that going to Japan was my goal, the final line, but now I know that it's not about the goal, it's about the journey. That precious journey, life, that takes you places you can dream of and dare to go. Get out! Get into the journey, enjoy every single step you take and hope that the goal, the end, is always far, far away.