Unplanned Travel Purchases
My thoughts:
Hello, guys. This weeks been amazing in Darjeeling miss Queen of the hills, I was here for 6 days. It's been nice exploring Nepali food & culture. They are such kind people. The tourism here is thriving, & with it the garbage that is created from tourism & single use plastics. Also, the burning of garbage to reduce it piling up. I'm sure they're doing there best, & it defenatily cleaner than most of the cities I have seen in the past month in India.
It's mostly made me reflect on my impact on these places the garbage I produce, like:
- Oh lord the amount of plastic water bottles I have consumed this trip, I don't think I have used that many in my whole life.
- Or the single use plastics at street food stalls.
- Being unprepared before going to a place & then having to buy clothes because of the climate. We bought an umbrella, poncho, jackets and 2 shalls in Darjeeling because of the cold, my wardrobe was only for the heat of India. Wet cold hits hard.
I think these unexpected purchases can be prevented with a little research & prepardness. I definitely need to do better, because these clothes are out of necessasity I fear they maynot stay in my wardrobe long.
Lepcha Jagat pine forest as we took photos the locals were burning garbage created by the tourism. They said they weren't burning plastic but it smelled like it. I don't blame them. There needs to be better disposal systems.
Wins of discomfort this week:
- After a 1.5 month of not posting any content, here I am writing this newsletter,
- I filmed a long form video for the channel on the topic NFC digital linktree business card. It's been on my content ideas lists for a while & now I just need to edit & post it! I am excited to see if it will do as well as my apple shortcuts video.
- Filmed a lot of travel content for my other channel with my partner, lots of editing to do. I am excited to get better at transitions & music & saying yes to posting content that I am uncomfortable with the world seeing like the video of a pigeon having pooped on my head ahh... l'm learning to let go, wish me luck.
Question for you:
What is a purchase you have made in your travels that you think could have been prevented?
Feel free to directly reply to this email! Bye till next Friday✨
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