Going through the current Hive learners topic just made me realize that it's been a long while since I had a real travel experience, about 4 years now I've not left the comfort of my state of residence, which can be mostly attributed to financial reasons as the cost of traveling by whichever means of transport is on the high side, so unless the reason for your travel is unavoidable, or maybe business-related every wise citizen of my country managing his or her resources would rather choose to stay put where they are like I have been in the last 4 years.

At least my last traveling experience was worthwhile, it was a family trip to my state of origin and also an extended trip to spend some time with my mother-in-law who also hails from the same state, then, it was just me, my husband, and first daughter as I hadn't had my second daughter yet then, it was her first time meeting with her granddaughter

Though my stay at the village during that period was funfilled but the journey there wasn't as exciting it was the worst road travel I have ever had, I guess it's part of the reason I still freight traveling by road again especially when the distance is long and would take more than one or two hours.

The trip from Lagos to Akwa-Ibom state is usually a 10-12 hours journey by road with a good vehicle at a normal speed, but this journey took more than 18 hours before we arrived at our destination, the driver takes the award as the slowest I've ever seen on such kind of journey, although the bad highway roads took part of the blame, but this wasn't the worst reason yet that made that journey so bad.

It was the fact that I had motion sickness all through the journey, I constantly threw up right from when we exited Lagos State till we arrived at Akwa-Ibom, I had never felt so sick like the way I felt that day, I lost so much weight and was looking so pale when we finally reached our destination. Thank God at least I have a good mum-in-law who was impatiently waiting for our arrival, and the moment we arrived she took proper care of me and the entire family, making sure we enjoyed ourselves and regained full health during our stay before our departure.

She is the only person who will make me risk traveling at such great distance again, but this time, I pray I'm able to afford to take a flight, we now have a second daughter who is turning 4 soon, and yet to see her grandma, so our next traveling is long overdue.

My sister recently traveled to our state, and when I inquired about the transport cost, it has unbelievably increased in price times four of the amount we paid four years ago, looking at such expenses would make one want to reconsider ever traveling, but as I stated, this trip is important, hopefully by the end of the year, we would be able to make it happen, yea, we have phones to make video calls, but we can't displace the place of physical meet and bonding, as grandma is also getting old and can't travel such a long distance, it's best we do the traveling.

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