I ALMOST WENT TO AFGHANISTAN (NOW MY PLANS HAVE CHANGED)
what's up guys long time no talk i have a little bit of an update for you guys but to start title of this video so as you already know i was just in pakistan and i was actually planning on going to afghanistan right after pakistan and as you've seen in the news things have gone very south in afghanistan and i was actually going to be there at the perfectly wrong time as you can see from this instagram message i had been talking to a tour company about going and i knew that it wasn't the safest place to go but as you probably know if you've been following this channel for a little bit i had the hefty goal of going to every country in the world and so i knew that i should do afghanistan before this happened and here you can read that i was planning to go in august at pretty much the worst time i asked them about the safety of it and they said don't believe what you hear in the news the taliban is not going to take over afghanistan and luckily i went with my gut feeling which was telling me over and over again that i should not go and then i decided not to so that's the first part of this video i wanted to i'm getting to something else actually i've actually recorded this video this will be the third time recording this and i just can't seem to get the word straight this is a very difficult video to put together mostly because this is a big change i've been working on this youtube channel uh and my other youtube channel basically traveling on youtube for the last five years almost now and it's been great i fulfilled a lot of my dreams my dream my dream 10 years ago was to figure out a way to travel around the world and share it with people make enough money to continue traveling and just be able to experience the people the places of the world and i've been very blessed to be able to do that for the last five years with that being said it is a lot harder than it looks like on the surface from social media and what you see on youtube it's not only a dream it is very difficult to make it happen and to keep it going so the general gist of this video is that i want to try something different i'm going to take a little break it's an indefinite break so i don't know if i'll be coming back to this channel to continue showing my travels or if this is the last video there are several reasons for this one is my health my physical health it has been a difficult ride with my physical health over the last five years or actually before that even but travel did not make it any easier you could probably tell from the videos that at certain points i didn't really look completely well and that's you know getting sick from food while traveling food poisoning those kinds of things but also i'm gluten intolerant and it's pretty hard to avoid gluten and wheat especially when you don't know what you're eating and how it's cooked and all of that so i was probably consuming this all the time which contributed to feeling bad all the time and i think you could see it in my face and since i've been home i took a food sensitivity test which who knows how accurate it actually is but it showed that i am sensitive to a ton of foods i'm allergic to foods and not only foods pollens and grasses and dust and all these things that makes it pretty difficult to travel and experience all these different environments and try the foods and do all of these things when it constantly makes me feel bad so my physical health is one thing that i need to get in order so that i feel good health is probably the most important thing in the world without your health what can you really do in your life which brings me to the next thing which is mental health and i know this is kind of a buzz word a trending thing that everybody's talking about and i never thought that i would be talking about this on my channel but things happened and as you guys have seen i if you've been around for a while you've probably seen i've gone through a couple relationships during these travels and relationships are not the easiest thing to keep afloat while you're traveling whether it's long distance or your partner is with you and you're with each other 24 7 you never get a break from each other you're going through the ups and downs of travel and everything that goes with it covid making things even more lonely hard to meet people it's been hard to meet people it's difficult to get in certain countries i've gotten stuck in countries for weeks or months it's just cova has made everything really difficult all over the world even if you're home but especially with travel so all these factors and many more contributed to my mental health just going and i have not felt good mentally or physically for many many months now and so i wasn't able to enjoy what i was doing and i don't want this all to be negative so that's as far as i'm going to go there and so that brings me to the future my plan is to find a place here in california whether it's in or around san francisco or in or around the los angeles area hey if you're from one of those places if you're from california and you know of a place where you have any info for me let me know email me or something i'm currently looking for a place besides sticking around here i am actually very excited for what the future holds what i would like to do is pursue photography and videography in a different way while i was traveling it was just a quick run and gun thing just putting out content for youtube it was all for youtube i don't want to do it for that reason anymore i want to get back to my roots my artistic side which is kind of why i started this in the first place i wanted to travel but also i wanted to put my art into my videos and i lost that over time so the plan is to kind of become a freelancer a freelance photographer videographer so i'll still probably be making videos and making photos but there should be some kind of correlation between what i've been doing here and what i'm going to do so once i can figure out all of this over the next few months hopefully i am hoping to continue traveling just not every day so finally we're here to the meat of the video i have put together a few minutes of clips from my last five years of travel on youtube very nostalgic very sad but also but also a good thing and although it's sad to kind of stop doing that full-time i'm sure there will be some of that in the future who knows where it's going to go so the last five years of travel take a look ready to go through it so my friend eddie is from mexico all right so look at this we have a huge crowd on our boat the main plaza of candelaria okay so all right turning i mean i can do a scorpion i think our private limousine i'll share it with you guys salute good morning guys we are on a good trail it looks like we're about to have some tea and coffee okay the largest indoor aquarium in a mall ever all right we finally made it to the top and it was worth it look at this just huge salt crystals i should get out of here quick we're on the roof of the bus wow what is this this is our second pink chicha ever wow the black spicy so so and let's see it's the most expensive coffee in the world so much actually all right cheers getting a michelada welcome to inky punk so this is how to build a bed in the back of your van you have to knock off the rest of the drawers it's like peeling off a sunburn the town seems to be obsessed with their rock so this is our first well it's just us oh look at he peeled the whole thing it seems like they lost the trail uh oh so we're good hey potato not near anything do perfect ending to a good day great cheese comes from happy cows but happy cows come from california that's probably why they don't have cheese here massive today marks the first day of my travels around the world the adventure begins today today marks the first day of my travels around the world and i'm gonna be filming and sharing it with you every day and the plan these are the plans the plans might change they always do but that's the plan okay okay really quick before we end i don't know if there's gonna be another video or not so i just wanted to say thank you to all of you everybody who has watched these videos who's contributed to the views contributed to the likes and uh follows on social media and everything that allowed me to do this for the last five years you guys have been awesome and couldn't have done it without your guys support you guys are awesome and i will see you in some other capacity see you guys you
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