GLOBETROTTERS WRITING PROMPT
January Monthly Challenge — My Travel Wish List 2023
Where we are getting inspired for our travel plans
Happy New Year, everyone. I hope you had a wonderful 2022 and will have an even better 2023. We have 365 days ahead of us for living the life we love. Let’s make the best of it.
While countless New Year’s resolutions are being set I’d like to ask you for your plans for the new year. Specifically, your travel plans. Where are you going to fly to, which countries are on your wish list and maybe which trips have you planned already?
At Globetrotters, we are always looking for authentic travel reports with wonderful personal narratives and we’d like to start the year hearing what all your plans are and hopefully, later on, we will be hearing the first-hand experience of how those trips turned out and which destinations you did reach.
I am only days away from a big road trip exploring southern Africa a bit more. I am overly excited and can’t wait to see how it will turn out. This trip also has a long history and a bit of a background story.
In 2015, I arrived in Tanzania as a solo traveler and had 2 months to make my way down to Cape Town, South Africa. Along the way, I planned to travel down the east coast through Mozambique.
But how do things go when you’re a backpacker, I did make it to Cape Town and traveled through Tanzania, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana and in the end through South Africa but I never made it to Mozambique.
In 2023, eight years later, I am making a new attempt of reaching the country. I am no longer a solo traveler as I am married and will be traveling with David. I am also no longer a backpacker but a road-tripper. I won’t be staying in hostels, I’ll be camping all the way through.
However, the one thing that didn’t change is my passion for travel and the excitement for everything new that is ahead of me.
So here we go. Being currently based in Namibia, we will be starting at the Atlantic Ocean driving east while crossing Zambia and Zimbabwe until we reach the Indian Ocean in Mozambique. We have about 2 months for the trip and little else planned yet.
I did get inspired by a fellow Globetrotters writer to include Zambia in the trip. Ronald Smit has written about his adventures in the country. His articles are telling tales from a raw African adventure.
In the first one, he writes about a drive through the bush.
The second piece is about taking a walk in the capital, Lusaka.
But enough about me and my upcoming travel plans. Here at Globetrotters, we’re calling out for your stories. Tell us more about your travel plans for the new year.
My travel wish list for 2023.
Please share with us your stories. We’re looking for some personal narrative inspired by the beauty of the world ready to be explored. If you need some ideas, here we go:
My ultimate travel plans for 2023
The most fascinating country I am going to visit this year
This is how I plan my travels in 2023
XXX — a country I always look forward to exploring
I didn’t know that this is my dream travel destination for 2023
A very different travel wish list
Going into my 2023 travel plans without expectations
My 2023 Travel Plans
A requirement this month is to tag 2 articles that either inspired you to choose your destination for 2023 or had quality content about those places and helped you plan out your trip.
You can use the search function to review our publication and look for articles about your destination. It’s easy and a great way to show appreciation to other writers out here.
We’re looking forward to your submissions. As always, at the end of the month, the editors of Globetrotters will announce their winners. While we also submit our entries, we do not participate in the competition.
Please remember to follow our guidelines when submitting an article:
- The maximum article length must be 10 minutes.
- Always credit your images, even if they are your own. Please review our image policy if unsure.
- Write your article in the form title-subtitle-title image.
- Please add the tag “monthly challenge”.
- Make sure that travel is still a focus of your story.
- List 2 articles and tag the writers who created them
- The challenge will run from January 2nd until January 30th. We reserve the last day of the month to post the results from the challenge.
- For more clarification on submissions, visit the Globetrotters submission guidelines.
We, the team of editors at Globetrotters (JoAnn, Adrienne, Jillian & Anne ), want to thank each of you for contributing to our publication. You’ve sent so many fascinating articles on past challenges and we can’t wait for the next ones.
Thank you.
Jillian Amatt - Artistic Voyages has kicked off this challenge with "Surprise - We Are Going To Greece!"
Read here the final post of our previous monthly challenge. We asked you to share your Christmas stories from travels around the world. In this article, the editors announce their personal winners:
