Photographer of Global Geographic magazine

Are you like me, always envious of those dignitaries who travel around the world, but feel that you have time but no time to travel, and you have money and no time?

When I heard that a woman took traveling around 60 countries as her dream, and it took nine years to complete 18 classic domestic routes and traveled to 44 countries and regions, I made up my mind to write down her story!

Her name is Song Yanwen, and her English name is Wendy. We are all used to calling her Miss Song.

Her business card is very long and experienced: she started her business 10 years ago and has her own human resources company; She is an expert in financial management and the founder of a non-profit organization. She has been insisting on 10 years. She is also a self-disciplined and beautiful mother. She insisted on fitness for two years and lost 30 pounds. The whole person is completely new.

But what attracts me most is that she has been to the South Pole, the North Pole and the Everest Base Camp, and her footprints are all over seven continents and four oceans. During the May 13 holiday, she went to the Tengger Desert to challenge and walked 56 kilometers in three days.

Such a chivalrous woman who has traveled around the world is not only a resolute entrepreneur, but also a gentle little woman who loves beauty.

Let's go to her dream world!

In 2008, Mr. Song was at the low point of starting a business. The sudden occurrence of Wenchuan earthquake touched her deep sadness. Seeing the disaster in Wenchuan on TV, she felt the same pain.

She began to wonder: even if you start a successful company and have a lot of material satisfaction, natural disasters will make people lose everything overnight, so what's the point of living? She began to doubt life and even became afraid of flying.

June 5438+October 2008 10, she was extremely depressed and went to Jiuzhaigou alone. When changing trains in Chongqing, she met a rural aunt who left home for the first time. The two lived together and traveled together for a few days.

Among her peers, she learned that her aunt is a farmer in Qinghai, and she just tried to go to the county seat. In the first 50 years of her life, she never lived for herself. When watching TV, knowing that so many people died in the earthquake, she suddenly realized that life is so short and fragile that it is too late to watch it.

She asked the people who had seen the world in the village, "Where is the most beautiful place in China?" She was told: "Jiuzhaigou, Sichuan".

So, my aunt found out all the most beautiful skirts when she was young, baked a cake for a week, bought a plane ticket with the money she had saved for several years, and flew to Jiuzhaigou.

Every time she goes to a most beautiful scenic spot, she puts on a beautiful Tibetan robe and dances beautifully, so that the photographer can take the most beautiful photos for her. In this way, she realized her dream: in the most beautiful place in China, put on the most beautiful skirt and take a group of the most beautiful photos for herself!

Listening to my aunt's simple language and looking at her wrinkled face, Teacher Song couldn't help crying.

A rural aunt gave her a life lesson: It turns out that life doesn't need too much "fear of losing", but we should use the current actions to pursue our inner thoughts! Follow? Mine? Heart!

So Mr. Song overcame his fear of flying, and began to look for positive aspects in the tragedy. She is determined to enjoy the present, look to the future and devote herself to the dream of life!

After coming out of the sad mood, because of the management experience of human resources managers of 12 Fortune 500 foreign companies, Mr. Song immediately turned the emotional matter of business trip into rational planning and implementation. She began to draft a plan for herself to travel around the world.

She decided to realize her dream of traveling around 60 countries before she was 50!

She went to the travel agency where her friend worked, turned over the old travel magazines for a whole year, took them home to read, and combined with the information on the Internet, made a real, feasible and clever 20-year round-the-world travel plan for this illusory dream!

She collected the routes of many successful travelers, combined with the World Heritage List, selected 60 destination countries and regions from 220 countries in the world, and then went to one route every year, about 2-4 countries. In this way, the big target is broken down into small targets. Achieving a small goal in one year will surely realize the dream of "traveling around the world" in 20 years!

She thinks the most reliable way for ordinary people to dream of "traveling around the world" is to be a "global traveler" after work!

This is also the outlook on life that she has always admired: struggle while enjoying! Dreams are for realization!

Let's take a look at her global travel list!

June 2009 65438+1October: Europe 1 1 country? Hungary, Austria, Italy, Vatican, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Germany, Netherlands, France and Belgium.

65438+February 2009: Dubai

June 20 10: Japan

20 10 12: Australia, New Zealand

20 1 1 February: hongkong, macau and Taiwan Province province.

20 1 1: the four Nordic countries? Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark

20111October: Korea

February: South Africa

20 12 65438+ 10 month: Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand

Russia

20 12 12: Egypt, Turkey

Vietnam and Cambodia

20 14 10: USA and Canada

10 month: Antarctica

April 38, 2065+September 2005: Israel, Jordan

20 16 65438+ October: Arctic Circle, Alaska

India

2065438+September 2006: Spain, Portugal

Laos, Myanmar, Thailand

This long travel list and this firm footprint make me imagine a picture: a woman puts a red flag in front of a huge map of the world, on which is the country she has walked. How spectacular and comforting!

She said that the meaning of travel is experience and experience! You will see many different landscapes, enjoy different life experiences and meet different people from different countries.

When I die, I have many wonderful memories. I feel that my life is worthwhile and I will feel that I have no regrets when I die. When I am alive, I will cherish this moment.

I have been to so many countries and so many classic domestic routes, so I can't help asking Teacher Song, what is the most unforgettable place? She blurted out without thinking: South Pole!

In 20 15, she signed up for a 18-day trip to the South Pole. Most of this 45-person team are investors and entrepreneurs.

Antarctica is really far away. They flew from Beijing for three days before reaching the nearest city to the South Pole: ushuaia. They experienced the Devil's Strait-Drake Strait, and felt the wind, waves and extreme cold.

There are only penguins on that uninhabited island far away from humans. At first glance, there are only white, black and gray. Huge glaciers and chunks of ice are slowly melting. Avalanches and tsunamis make you feel small and even a little desperate.

Up to now, she still remembers the moment when camping in an uninhabited island: looking up at the sky in the endless snow is the most beautiful twinkling star, surrounded by thousands of penguins, spectacular and lonely, so small that she is full of awe of nature.

In the ice and snow where there is no money, no relationship and no signal, you will rethink your life and your future! ? The ultimate three questions in life: Who are you? Where are you from? Where are you going?

Traveling around the world is a journey full of adventure and growing experience. Don't wait until you are old, you will arrive!

There are still 16 countries and regions left on Teacher Song's current travel list, and she plans to realize them all in 5- 10 years!

If you happen to have a life dream of "traveling around the world"! Expect us to meet unexpectedly on the road!

(End of full text)