Lesson learned: Expect the Unexpected

Traveling is not easy especially when you have to step out of your comfort zone. All the inconvenience, desperation, and unexpected troubles that happened during the trip are lessons to reflect upon. We have proven how risky traveling is when my husband and I went to Europe for our honeymoon last year. There were times we put ourselves in danger because we messed out our bookings and things didn't work out as we planned them.

Since the first day of our trip, we were used  to booking our next departure ticket every time we arrived in a city. It was in contrast on what happen in Sweden. We didn’t know that we had to book the ticket from Copenhagen. Apparently, we thought that we are getting ahead, but we are not. We had to call Denmark's office to book the ticket knowing that we had no where to print it. It was a blessing that the Sony Center allowed us to print the ticket. 

When we arrived in our next destination, Germany to Paris at exactly five in the morning, we sighed for sadness and disappointment. We were expecting that we could book the later 10 o'clock evening departure, but we got the 5:45 in the morning. This means, we would arrive to Paris in the middle of the night in unsafe place. Come what might happen, we didn't have food and accommodation. What we only got is TRUST in God.  

Indeed, bad happenings for others might be good thing for us. Along the way in Cologne, Germany, the police stopped our bus for inspection and they had to hold him up because of the missing documents. As the result, we had to stop and took this chance to buy food and water. For us, that was a blessing.  

Eventually, we arrived in Paris half excited and half worried. We were excited to see Eiffel Tower , but we were worried because we couldn't afford to sleep for 100 euro five- hour accommodation. Good thing, we brought sleeping bags and set them up outside the bus station .Of course with our winter jackets on, we felt warm and comfortable. We had no choice, but to wait outside the station to open ,and we chose to sleep on the ground than walking around in the darkness.  

With this in mind, traveling is an ultimate adventure to live. Bad things will always teach us lessons. I am sure, we learn something out of it. It is good to be prepared and expect the worst scenarios when embarking on a journey. Thus, lessons are all around us if only we can recognize them for what they are.