It’s October, my favorite month of the year!
Partially due to the fact that my birthday is this month, but also because I love this time of the year,
the colors are changing, the rain is falling and my coats are out in full swing.
So for a number of reasons, but mainly because October is my birth-month,
every Tuesday this month, I’m going to be sharing a post about my life,
some will be travel related, some won’t,
but in the end, they will show who I am and what I’m all about.
So today, to start, a couple weeks ago when readers sent in questions for me to answer in my vlog, there were multiple questions about the places I traveled to when I an expat kid in Saudi Arabia.
My passion for travel started early in my life during my years in the Middle East and many of the places I visited as a child are places I’d love to go back to someday to revisit as an adult.
I think that as a child, the world sort of shapes itself into your thoughts and behaviors,
and my world as a child was full of different cultures and traditions, all living amongst each other.
That in itself has given me a world view of acceptance and understanding
and it was many of my childhood travel memories that helped to shape that view.
I feel very blessed to have grown up where I did and to see so much of the world as a child.
So here in no particular order are some of the main places we visited and traveled while I was a kid
that shaped my view of the world and of travel in general.
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| Photo via – because we have no idea where our Amsterdam photos are! |
Rachel says
You have traveled to so many wonderful places!
Casey Martin says
I’m so thankful for my overseas childhood, it opened so many doors!
darcisays says
Ooh I stayed overnight in a Bedouin tent and did camel rides when I went to Israel on birthright a few years ago — both were RIDICULOUSLY cool!
Casey Martin says
Aren’t they amazing??? I remember being so blown away by the Bedouins, they are pretty unique!
Helene in Between says
always love about me posts!! and love your travel photos, you always astound me!
Casey Martin says
Thanks Helene! I feel very blessed to have experienced these things 🙂
Chantal says
Such cool places! I hope my daughter gets to experience the world like this.
Casey Martin says
Ahh thank you! 🙂
Jenna says
Of all of these, your Saudi adventures have to be my absolute favorite. I would love to have the privilege of exploring the kingdom someday. Those bedouin tents look incredible. xxx
Casey Martin says
Yes, the Kingdom is such an interesting place brimming with contradictions but a place very special to me 🙂
Melanie Fontaine says
I love that you will be sharing some things about yourself this month! 🙂 Don’t get me wrong, I love your usual travel posts, but it’s great to learn more about the person behind the blog! 🙂 I completely understand what you mean when you say that you want to revisit the places you visited as a child now that you’re an adult: I feel the same way! Sometimes, while travel planning I struggle with the wish to go back to some places I have already been to and loved and my desire to explore new parts of the world. I’m also wondering: Will your visit to India in winter be your first time there after visiting as a kid? 🙂
xx
Melanie
Casey Martin says
I’m so glad! That was the idea, as I don’t share a ton of my day to day life, you’ll get a bunch of these with these Tuesday posts this month! 🙂 And to answer your question, yes, February will be my first time back to India in about 15 years which I’m so interested to see it again after all that time! 🙂
Allie @ Between Dreams says
Wow! This is so wonderful! Such awesome places to get to travel to at any age.
Casey Martin says
Oh yes, I feel so blessed to have seen so much of the world as a kid! Totally shaped who I am 🙂
Bri Buzali says
I think it’s so great that you had the opportunity to visit so many great places when you were young! Traveling definitely changes you as a person and opens your eyes to the world around you!
Casey Martin says
Thank you! And yes, I am so grateful for my years abroad… they taught me so much about the world!
Priyanka Kanagaraj says
I am dumbstruck . This is stupendous
Nicole Marie says
such cute pictures!! i really need to find our old trip photos
Casey Martin says
I know.. don’t you love old trip photos like this?!?! I had so much fun going through them!
ifs ands Butts says
It’s so great you got to experience so much wihle you were young, too. I can’t imagine how many great things it’d do for a child. My first international trip wasn’t until I was 18!
Casey Martin says
I am so thankful for getting to see so much of the world as a kid! 🙂
Talia says
Casey, I’ve been reading your posts about being a TCK and I think it dawned on me that I am to. So, I thank you for helping realize that and makes me embrace my own identity even more. Thanks for sharing your stories.
Casey says
Ahh yay!!! Another TCK 🙂