Create Your Own Adventure - Meagan Hale

Prompt 1: What is your most memorable traveling experience?

Prompt 2: If you could go anywhere in the world where would you go and why?

Prompt 3: What is something you have always wanted to try? (i.e skydiving, scuba diving, etc)

My most memorable traveling experience is when I went to Bermuda. I struggled between choosing Bermuda as my experience or my Europe tour but because I spent my time in one place instead of jumping from country to country like I did on my Europe tour it made my memories more vivid. When my mom first told me we were going to Bermuda my first question was, "like the Bermuda triangle?" I was convinced we were going to die. Thankfully we didn't die but we did fly into the second smallest airport I've ever been in, the first being the one in Costa Rica which the run way was not a run way but in fact a dirt road. We were taken to our hotel and along the way got to see the clearest, most blue water I've ever seen. We got to our hotel which consisted of several cottages rather than one building with several rooms. We immediately went exploring. While there, we ate at a few local restaurants, visited the little aquarium there, took ferryboat rides all around the island, went on a history walk that explained the island in ways a brochure never could, went to the little shops around, and got a pina colada ever five minutes because it was incredibly hot there. Oh, side note, grocery shopping in Bermuda is not fun. They have everything you could ever want and aside from the grocery stores being the size of Henry Clay classrooms, the price of living in Bermuda is extremely high. When I say groceries are expensive, I mean a box of Cheerios is twenty dollars kind of expensive. Anyways, I saved my favorite three activities for last. We collected sea glass which is pieces of broken beer bottles mostly that the sand and water has gone over so many times it becomes smooth. I also went on a horse drawn carriage ride around parts of the island to parts we would have never seen had we not. We were taken to an old worn down look out station and you could look down to see the bright blue waves crashing on the rocks. My favorite and final activity I did in Bermuda was the sailboat ride I took. We rode around the island and stopped in a little lagoon where we were able to jump off into the water to swim and snorkel. It is still the most beautiful thing I have seen to this day.