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Just like any other girl in her late 20's, I too was going through a lot of things in my life. Wanting to travel the world might sound too cliche.. But I really wanted to go explore every corner of the world and not to fill up my Instagram with pictures but to heal every broken piece of my heart. Being bought up in a typical middle class Indian family, where girls are not supposed to dream about all this, I too has lost hope in life! My dream to connect with my inner self was slowly fading until I had got an opportunity to get trained in a hotel in the US, I had finally found out what ignites my soul. I worked as an intern in a very beautiful city from West Virginia. Living there I realized that America is not about ham burgers and tall buildings. I got lucky to experience the country side culture. Waking up to multi colored tulips and breathtaking views of the mountains was more than a dream come true! Just like me, there were young aspiring chefs from all over the world. I got a chance to make friends from different countries. Being a chef by profession I was already passionate about cooking, but feeding people love in the form of food gives me a high on a next level. I kept feeding people Indian food and they fed my soul with happiness in return. I was sure that "WHEN YOU EAT, YOU TRAVEL". My friends from different parts of the world fed me their local delicasies and everytime I tried a new dish, I experienced the way to decode one's love language! In no time I was all over the city. A simple hello from the local florist next door used to open the gate to my soul. I was glad to meet a new me! I can't express enough how much I hated the snow, but I can never deny how much it has helped me grow in life! I was placed for a breakfast shift where I had to start work at 4 in the morning for which I used start walking from my house at 3:30 am.. Shivering, crying, cursing the snow, I somehow used to manage to get through the road where I could literally see deers crossing roads with me. As soon as I used cross the jungle road, I used to hear the train whistle, after which my episode of a horror show used to end. The train whistle was my solace 😂 The city was so small that there was only one bus which used to transport people to Walmart only once in a day. Everytime I took that bus, I made a new friend. My landlady had become my foster mother and now visits India and stays with us in our small house every year! This was my first international experience as a localite.. I have travelled all around India with my grandfather where he used to tell me stories at night and I used to live my whole life in those stories! Travel is what makes me alive again. I wish I can experience every corner of the globe so closely! I wish I have familes all around the world. I wish I can connect my soul and find my lost self in the hearts of people from all around the world