One Year!
It's hard to believe it has been a whole year since we left New York City,
packed up everything we own and started out as full time travelers,
or well, I guess as close to full time travelers as 2020 would allow us to be.
It has been truly a roller coaster this past year, we were so excited to leave our homes, but of course...
2020 happened.
Through that whole journey of just kind of posting videos to capture it for ourselves,
we've had the opportunity to now meet so many people on YouTube.
We are so super thankful that 6,500 of you now have chosen to follow along on our journey.
We are so happy that we go so much support from you. All your messages, all your comments. We know your support.
And, we want to give back to a few of you, we're going to talk more on that in just a few seconds.
You may already know that, we actually divided our adventures into chapters
In chapter 1 we captured how we left our home after preparing for this world tour for 3 years,
and how things kind of abruptly ended after seeing 3 countries and how we came to Turkey.
We're still really thankful that we were even able to see those 3 countries out of the 30 that we planned for because
a lot of people could not go anywhere last year at all
Right, that's why we actually named Chapter 1 as our "Fortunate, Unfortunate Beginning" because
we're so thankful that we had a (second) home to come back.
We are thankful that we had such a beautiful country, Gökçe's country, to come back to for our second chapter of our journey.
Not quite how we planned it, but its been an absolutely incredible time.
And not only we got to explore Turkey, from my home town to the southern part of Turkey,
and we just finished up our videos by the way, but also we were here to help people coming to visit Turkey
from all over the world and giving them updates on coronavirus, the lockdowns. And it literally felt like
we were meant to be here at this time to help other travelers as well.
Absolutely, and some of those travelers that we wound up coming across whether it was a Bangladeshi couple
that we met up with in Kaş and then explore Istanbul together with,
or, Tah who introduced some of her Thai food and culture to us while we were able to
give her some Turkish culture and show her around Istanbul... we really got see Istanbul a lot this year, didn't we (laughing).
And of course we also got to taste some different cuisines than we could have imagined trying in Istanbul.
Meeting our friends that had come from Malaysia after 10 months and they were able to talk about some of there
favorite Malay foods and talk about some of the culture they experienced while they were there.
So, we got to travel a bit of Malaysia thanks to them as well.
This whole time in Turkey actually made us realize that travel is not only about exploring landscapes, seeing new places.
It can be all about getting to know even one person, exchanging ideas, learning about their culture.
Or, visiting a different cuisine at where you live and tasting their food, understanding how they make things.
And this past year even though we couldn't get to travel all the 30 countries we wanted to hit in our first year,
We had a chance to look at travel from a very different standpoint, and we can't be more thankful for that.
And because we're thankful for that and we're thankful for the fact that so many of you have chosen to join us on our journey,
we wanted to give back to 3 of you in the form of a(n) Amazon gift card if you have access to an Amazon gift card,
Yeah, this is the last episode of Chapter 2, if you have been also following us on Instagram, you may already know, but
we have some exciting places coming up on Chapter 3, and we can't wait to share them all with you,
so, stay tuned, don't forget to enter the raffle and see you in chapter 3.
Bye!