MAKING THE FIRST DECISION

For a few months I’d been planning to travel and had got myself geared up for the idea.

I still hadn’t selected a destination though, to start my travels and deliberated on this for some time.

I believed that Southeast Asia was generally a good starting point for me though, for a few reasons:

1. I’d never travelled alone and knew there would be many others in the same situation, so meeting people to travel with was likely to be easy
2. I wanted to travel indefinitely and knew I could budget effectively
3. The culture would be different from what I was used to and would push me out of my comfort zone and expose me to something new
4. The history
5. The food

Where should I start?

After carrying out some fairly loose research, I narrowed my options down to three potential starting points:

• Hanoi
• Bangkok
• Chiang Mai

As planned, I left it up to the dice to decide:

How it felt to roll the dice for the first time

Prior to rolling the dice, the idea of booking the first flight was a scary prospect.

As soon as I rolled it and saw the outcome though, it felt different all of a sudden. There was no reason to think about it. All I had to do was book the flight.

I booked it almost instantly.

The feeling was immensely liberating – the idea that the decision was now out of my hands and I had to – pun intended – roll with it!

I’m excited to see what the next dice throw has in store and when this will be. I hope you come along with me for the ride.