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">Unsplash</a></figcaption></figure><p id="d89f">The funny thing is that we were supposed to housesit for her in the summer of 2020 after we finished traveling in Morocco. Well, we all know what happened with those plans! But here we are, a couple of years down the road, and it looks like we may just pick up where we were supposed to have left off, next summer.</p><p id="7d80"><b>So, in reality, Adrienne, much to my surprise, we are starting to plan also, one year in advance! HA!</b></p><p id="1074">While we generally do not divulge our travel plans to our following on social media, I have decided that this time I want to.</p><p id="007a">We do subscribe to the power of attraction thinking and have had success with manifesting in the past, so I see this as an extension of that. There is nothing quite like declaring your intentions to the world, to aid in the process of making them happen.</p><p id="05ec">So while we don’t have anything booked, and likely will only go so far as to book a flight to Istanbul, we have a skeleton of a plan forming.</p><p id="2851">Our ‘plan’ is to stay in Uganda for most of the rest of our current visa which expires on August 15th. We are currently at one more location where we are painting some artwork and working on a mural, then we really want to see Jinja, the starting point of the Nile River. We have heard many nice things about it, and we now know some people that live there, so would like to pay them a visit.</p><p id="c483">After that, we will fly from Entebbe to Istanbul. From there we want to visit an online friend that we made the last time we were in Istanbul. He really wanted us to come and visit him at his home near Izmir, so we could see his olive orchard, amongst other things, but we never made it. We have been in touch with him for the last couple of years as he follows our journey, and he is still eager for us to come and stay with him.</p><p id="6bad">So we will visit him then will go to Capadoccia and see the south shore of the country.</p><p id="5d3f">After that, we will travel by land up to Bulgaria. On the way, we may, or may not stay at a place where we were supposed to paint a mural the last time, that sits on the border of Turkey and Bulgaria. We will see, we haven’t gotten in touch with him yet and likely won’t until we get there.</p><p id="91d5"><b>Our gig with him was canceled the last time because he got Covid.</b></p><figure id="ac99"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*LERvRz4e7gEC7sDs8FWwoA.png"><figcaption>Screenshot by Author from <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Majorca/@44.1827637,10.4928131,5.39z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x1297b8766606c129:0xb7eb9bff02d2ecc0!8m2!3d39.6952629!4d3.0175712">googlemaps.com</a></figcaption></figure><p id="71e1">In Bulgaria, we have a friend that we met when we were there in 2015 whom we would like to connect with. From there, we will travel by land across to North Macedonia, then to Albania where we hope to spend most of the winter months. It used to be that we could get a 6-month visitor visa there, so we hope that this is still the case. We would like to rent an apartment and hunker down and hibernate for the cold months, working on our online projects.</p><p id="5dab">Then we will begin moving north and around the Adriatic Sea. We don’t know for sure how this will all play out. While we would love to see all the countries along the way and follow the coastline, much will depend on expense and time. If necessary, we can likely catch a ferry across to Italy, to shortcut getting to Spain. <b>We will see.</b></p><figure id="f4d8"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*Vr7nUSZaiOx1ablSzA9zUg.png"><figcaption>Traveling North from Albania would take us through Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia. Screenshot by Author from <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Majorca/@44.1827637,10.4928131,5.39z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x1297b8766606c129:0xb7eb9bff02d2ecc0!8m2!3d39.6952629!4d3.0175712">Googlemaps.com</a></figcaption></figure><p id="5aba">Since we were in Morocco in 2020, we have also wanted to visit Tunisia. We have seen and heard amazing things coming from there, so it is certainly on our list. Once we are in that area, we should be able to determine the best way to get there and if it is doable. We prefer to travel by land and sea if it is possible.</p><figure id="f3c3"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*Z5kSQLFnHtaCh4LN5p5Vvg.png"><figcaption>Screensh

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ot by Author from <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Majorca/@44.1827637,10.4928131,5.39z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x1297b8766606c129:0xb7eb9bff02d2ecc0!8m2!3d39.6952629!4d3.0175712">Googlemaps.com</a></figcaption></figure><p id="6c4a">This will put us in the area of Mallorca, where you see the red marker above, in time for our summer housesitting job. From there, we really DO NOT have any plans!</p><p id="d47f">So while you can see that we have a skeleton of a plan to look forward to, we by no means know any details of the plan, and we won’t until we get there.</p><p id="26a5">We don’t research places, and we usually have no idea what we are getting into, we just go. Sometimes we miss out on things, sometimes we see things that we never could have dreamed of. We tend to let the Universe decide where it wants us to be, and it usually works out pretty darn good.</p><figure id="3499"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/0*n49cshyLZCv5YjQo"><figcaption>Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@spencerdavis?utm_source=medium&utm_medium=referral">Spencer Davis</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com?utm_source=medium&utm_medium=referral">Unsplash</a></figcaption></figure><p id="e79f">I can’t tell you how nervous this makes me to lay out an agenda like this. Part of me thinks ‘but what if it doesn’t happen’ and part of me realizes that by declaring it, it HAS to happen!</p><p id="6978">Either way, we can see that this is a positive outlook on our future, and we couldn’t be more excited about how it will all unfold. And the most interesting part is that we will be right back in the part of the world that we had intended to go to after our initial time spent in Morocco. So we can continue on with our journey, pretending like the past couple of years never happened! HA!</p><p id="1bf7" type="7">No, that will never happen, Africa has changed us in ways that we never thought possible!</p><p id="cef8">Thanks so much for reading about our ‘plans’! We have much to look forward to and we are beyond excited about it all.</p><p id="f121">I hope that all you other globetrotters are also coming up with some travel plans!</p><p id="d25b" type="7">Don’t forget, the world is our oyster!</p><p id="142d">Happy travels!</p><p id="c9ea">xo Jill</p><p id="97b8">PS I am officially in celebration mode! I JUST crossed 1K followers! Whoop:)</p><figure id="f715"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*KFpykrrG_Mp5PmR25g6OzA.png"><figcaption>It’s official! Screenshot by Author.</figcaption></figure><p id="4984">PPS <a href="undefined">Linda Ng</a> asked me to tag her in this:)</p><figure id="1e53"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*IDlDKuxoG0gmCX-cVp-Utw.png"><figcaption></figcaption></figure><div id="749a" class="link-block"> <a href="https://artisticvoyages.medium.com/trying-to-find-out-who-i-am-2df933941fff"> <div> <div> <h2>Trying to Find Out Who I Am?</h2> <div><h3>You are in the right place.</h3></div> <div><p>artisticvoyages.medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*TI3uoe0kHwRUaEK1YN6x_A.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="9080"><i>Hi there, we are 2 Canadians, Jill and Chris from Artistic Voyages. We have been nomadic since 2017 living in numerous different countries, and experiencing the life and diversity of our planet on the ground and firsthand. We have now been on the African continent for over 2 years!</i></p><p id="ebdc"><b><i>Subscribe to Medium through my <a href="https://artisticvoyages.medium.com/membership">referral link</a> to get full access to my writing plus thousands of others! Plus sign up <a href="https://artisticvoyages.medium.com/subscribe">here</a> to get my articles by email!</i></b></p><p id="fd6f"><i>Join our adventure by hitting the links below!</i></p><p id="883b"><a href="http://www.artisticvoyages.com/">Website</a> | <a href="http://www.instagram.com/artisticvoyages">Instagram</a> | <a href="http://www.facebook.com/artisticvoyages">Facebook</a> | <a href="http://www.twitter.com/artisticvoyages">Twitter</a> | <a href="http://www.patreon.com/artisticvoyages">Patreon</a>|<a href="http://www.youtube.com/c/artisticvoyages"> YouTube</a> | <a href="https://artisticvoyages.medium.com/">Medium</a></p></article></body>

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Declaring Our Future Travel Plans

This is as much planning as we can muster.

This just so happens to be exactly where we want to go! Photo by Ilya Panasenko on Unsplash

I’ve read a couple of articles recently from fellow Globetrotters, JoAnn Ryan and Adrienne Beaumont that have declared their upcoming travel plans. You can read about them here and here if you want.

I couldn’t help but chuckle as I read them because I felt as though I could only hope to have plans like these. Adrienne, for example, isn’t traveling until 2023, yet she has started getting her trip organized. This is so NOT us! We barely know where we will be tomorrow, let alone a year from now.

I totally understand that most people plan their travels well in advance, but with the way that we live our lifestyle, it is really difficult to plan anything too far in advance.

But these articles got me thinking.

For a couple of months now we have seriously been talking about leaving Africa. Actually, it started well before that. One day we started reminiscing about different food as we had gotten bored with the typical food that is served in Eastern Africa. Slowly but surely, our conversation led, inevitably, to Istanbul.

It was Istanbul where we had some of the most amazing food that we have eaten to date, and we suddenly craved many of the delicious things that we had when we were there. We also talked about the fact that there is so much more to Turkey that we need to see. In fact, we never did leave Istanbul, even though we were there for 2.5 months.

When we did leave the country, because winter had arrived and we were cold, we vowed that we would be back.

Because Istanbul is such a big hub city, it is easy to fly there from Africa. So while having this discussion on this particular day, we agreed that when we do decide to leave Africa, we will fly back to Istanbul.

In March, when we arrived back in Uganda this last time, we were both suffering from teeth issues. Of course, we still are three months later, but it was then that we remembered how great the dentists are in Istanbul. In fact, much of Europe goes to Istanbul for dentistry, amongst other plastic procedures.

When we were there last, I had to get a tooth pulled, and we were very impressed with the cleanliness of the clinic and the professionalism of the dentist. For a cost of just $40 (including x-rays etc.), it was money well spent. The same procedure in Canada would have been well over $200, plus extra for the x-rays.

While inflation has wracked Turkey, like the rest of the world, we think dental work will still be pretty cheap. Either way, it was at that point that we seriously got to talking about going back to Istanbul so that we could both go to the dentist.

Our return to Uganda has been a bit of an emotional roller coaster ride. While we completed a couple of really cool mural projects, we have also started to find ourselves very tired of being here. I won’t get into the details now, I’ll just direct you to my profile to read some of my latest articles if you are interested. They summarize some mounting frustrations that have really made us want to get out.

Another item that has come up in the past couple of months is that a friend that lives on the Island of Mallorca, Spain, needs housesitters for a couple of months next summer. A few weeks ago she messaged me and asked if we would be interested.

The funny thing is that we were supposed to housesit for her in the summer of 2020 after we finished traveling in Morocco. Well, we all know what happened with those plans! But here we are, a couple of years down the road, and it looks like we may just pick up where we were supposed to have left off, next summer.

So, in reality, Adrienne, much to my surprise, we are starting to plan also, one year in advance! HA!

While we generally do not divulge our travel plans to our following on social media, I have decided that this time I want to.

We do subscribe to the power of attraction thinking and have had success with manifesting in the past, so I see this as an extension of that. There is nothing quite like declaring your intentions to the world, to aid in the process of making them happen.

So while we don’t have anything booked, and likely will only go so far as to book a flight to Istanbul, we have a skeleton of a plan forming.

Our ‘plan’ is to stay in Uganda for most of the rest of our current visa which expires on August 15th. We are currently at one more location where we are painting some artwork and working on a mural, then we really want to see Jinja, the starting point of the Nile River. We have heard many nice things about it, and we now know some people that live there, so would like to pay them a visit.

After that, we will fly from Entebbe to Istanbul. From there we want to visit an online friend that we made the last time we were in Istanbul. He really wanted us to come and visit him at his home near Izmir, so we could see his olive orchard, amongst other things, but we never made it. We have been in touch with him for the last couple of years as he follows our journey, and he is still eager for us to come and stay with him.

So we will visit him then will go to Capadoccia and see the south shore of the country.

After that, we will travel by land up to Bulgaria. On the way, we may, or may not stay at a place where we were supposed to paint a mural the last time, that sits on the border of Turkey and Bulgaria. We will see, we haven’t gotten in touch with him yet and likely won’t until we get there.

Our gig with him was canceled the last time because he got Covid.

Screenshot by Author from googlemaps.com

In Bulgaria, we have a friend that we met when we were there in 2015 whom we would like to connect with. From there, we will travel by land across to North Macedonia, then to Albania where we hope to spend most of the winter months. It used to be that we could get a 6-month visitor visa there, so we hope that this is still the case. We would like to rent an apartment and hunker down and hibernate for the cold months, working on our online projects.

Then we will begin moving north and around the Adriatic Sea. We don’t know for sure how this will all play out. While we would love to see all the countries along the way and follow the coastline, much will depend on expense and time. If necessary, we can likely catch a ferry across to Italy, to shortcut getting to Spain. We will see.

Traveling North from Albania would take us through Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia. Screenshot by Author from Googlemaps.com

Since we were in Morocco in 2020, we have also wanted to visit Tunisia. We have seen and heard amazing things coming from there, so it is certainly on our list. Once we are in that area, we should be able to determine the best way to get there and if it is doable. We prefer to travel by land and sea if it is possible.

This will put us in the area of Mallorca, where you see the red marker above, in time for our summer housesitting job. From there, we really DO NOT have any plans!

So while you can see that we have a skeleton of a plan to look forward to, we by no means know any details of the plan, and we won’t until we get there.

We don’t research places, and we usually have no idea what we are getting into, we just go. Sometimes we miss out on things, sometimes we see things that we never could have dreamed of. We tend to let the Universe decide where it wants us to be, and it usually works out pretty darn good.

I can’t tell you how nervous this makes me to lay out an agenda like this. Part of me thinks ‘but what if it doesn’t happen’ and part of me realizes that by declaring it, it HAS to happen!

Either way, we can see that this is a positive outlook on our future, and we couldn’t be more excited about how it will all unfold. And the most interesting part is that we will be right back in the part of the world that we had intended to go to after our initial time spent in Morocco. So we can continue on with our journey, pretending like the past couple of years never happened! HA!

No, that will never happen, Africa has changed us in ways that we never thought possible!

Thanks so much for reading about our ‘plans’! We have much to look forward to and we are beyond excited about it all.

I hope that all you other globetrotters are also coming up with some travel plans!

Don’t forget, the world is our oyster!

Happy travels!

xo Jill

PS I am officially in celebration mode! I JUST crossed 1K followers! Whoop:)

PPS Linda Ng asked me to tag her in this:)

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