Reged: 07/10/04
Posts: 1176
Loc: Manhattan, New York
I am butting in with mine because I think you will enjoy it! So June 2002 I graduate from Leeds University (Yay Natalie!!) and decide that I am going to temp as a personal assistant for as long as it takes to save enough money to go round the world! My dream trip. I had recently broken up with a complete arsehole of a boyfriend and decided that, for once (I am a serial monogamist and have been since age 14), this was not going to be about men (I LOVE men :-)), it was going to be about self improvement, loving myself etc. So this job I get is great, and I decide that I will have enough money by March 2003 to leave. So in November 2002, I join my first ever website, sneakily at work (minimising the window as soon as my boss walks by etc), The Lonely Planet Thorn Tree ( a travel website belonging to the world famous travel guides with half a million users worldwide) - in order to research all the countries I am going to go to and get to know other travellers etc. One day in late November I decide to look at the 'Travel Companions' forum....people searching for others to travel with...just for fun. I SERIOUSLY had NO intention of travelling with some random person from the internet...I wanted to entertain myself to see what kind of people were out there. So I see this post (27th Nov 2002!!) '24 yr old guy from NYC going round the world in March 03...this is my route (lists all the countries) get in touch!'. It was EXACTLY the same route and timing as my planned trip. I was like 'do I write to him, do I not? what if he is weird?'...I thought...what the hell? So I just wrote to this guy, whose username was NewYawkah, and said 'hey you are doing the same trip as me!'. He wrote back 'email me, my name is Asaf'. I was like BOOM. Oh my God, it is an Israeli name (we are SUCH a minority in the world - my family are Israeli too)...and SERIOUSLY an insane part of me said 'Maybe this is my husband?'. I then slapped myself and said 'stop having insane man obsessed thoughts idiot Dalia, get a grip!' So we emailed. and we emailed and we emailed. and within ten days I felt like this guy was my best friend. He sent me photos of himself (and my computer was soooo slow and it was downloading sooo slowly and I was like 'please be good looking etc'!!!), I sent him a photo of me. Then he called...and we spoke alllll night and he was so funny and we got on so well. We started to think about eachother alll day, and forgot about thinking about the trip. On Valentines day, he told me he loved me! Down the phone! I loved him too, so much!! So, needless to say, all this time we decided to start the trip together and if we didn't like eachother on meeting we could just go our own ways. So two days before we left for New Zealand, Asaf, flew to London. I waited for him in the airport and needless to say I had pooed, constantly, the entire night before!! He walked out and I recognised him from his photos immediately!! I jumped over the barrier and hugged him so tight, we looked at eachother (he was shaking and saying 'let me see you, let me see you') and kissed and the chemistry was there in real life (HUGE sigh of relief!!). We went back to a hotel in London and I am not giving you those juicy details! hahahhaha. So two days later we flew to New Zealand and started travelling, over to Australia and up into all of South East Asia. Asaf proposed to me, 6 months after we first got together, in our hotel in Saigon, Vietnam. It was totally spontaneous. We married in July, just passed, in Israel and now I am living in NYC!! How random is that??????
-------------------- Feel the fear and do it anyway!
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