What's Your Story?

Traveling –
it leaves you speechless,
then turns you into a storyteller
– Ibn Battuta

This quote is so true for me. There have been countless moments when I’ve been in utter awe during my travels. My vocabulary, albeit vast, could not describe the site and my imagination, albeit vivid, could not fathom the experience. For a few moments, I was truly speechless. My mind was processing all that I was seeing while my spirit was absorbing all that I was feeling. These moments may have been fleeting, but the stories they birthed last a lifetime.

I know some of you are like me. We may not be the life of the party but we aren’t the Debbie Downers either. We share evenly in conversations and interject when appropriate. However, let the topic turn to travel and we have more stories than Shakespeare has sonnets. You might as well grab another drink, have a seat and make yourself comfortable…you gon’ be here for a while!

I would love to hear some of your travel stories. What experiences will you treasure forever? What sites do you still can’t believe you saw with your very own eyes? What situations have you been in that you said “Lord, just get me out of this and I promise…”? Send me your stories and I will share them with other lovers of travel. We can inspire and uplift each other and provide something to look forward to as we start to venture out again.

Overton Travel provides you with plenty of amazing storytelling experiences. I can already hear some of the stories from the 2022 trips. Remember that time we…