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Travel with Clem: How I Started this Life Changing Brand
The Travel Bug
I’ve always loved traveling, and I believe I actually caught the “traveling” but from my mother. When we were kids, she would always come back home with chocolates, souvenirs, tokens and little special things she would have gathered from her trips. We used to look forward to opening her bags, watching her travel pictures, and hearing about the stories of her adventures, from Seattle to Harare. She was so happy (and still is), and I wanted to be “happy” like her, in every way.
My first (ever) trip away from home was to Germany, in 2004, with my siblings. I spent the summer there visiting family that I had only known from pictures. I was 12 or 13, I believe. I can still remember everything so vividly, as it if was yesterday: from having to wake up early and wear nice clothes for our appointment at the German embassy, watching my mom skeptically uttering some words to the interviewer (words of which I knew nothing), to boarding “a plane” with my siblings for the first time, with a Lufthansa tag around our neck indicating that we were kids/minors/first time travelers, to playing with my cousins at the park and attending choir rehearsals with my uncle’s choir.
I had to keep that momentum going. When I joined medical school, I discovered that away elective rotations were a way to experience different healthcare systems while traveling the world, so I jumped on the train: I had just found the perfect excuse to visit Scotland, Australia, and the US (Chicago). Whilst my passion for traveling was being nourished with every trip I took, my experiences were even more meaningful because I was actually taking steps towards achieving my other dream: becoming a Doctor. So every trip had a (double purpose).
I also noticed that the more I sought opportunities to travel, the more they came along (The Law of Attraction is Real). From volunteering at conferences, to attending research symposiums and short-training programs, I kept pushing, and things kept happening. Eventually, I ended up with countless archives of pictures, and I wanted an avenue to share them (even more so because my sister was getting tired of hearing me talk about all these trips. I could tell.)
The first time Travel with Clem was launched
The first time Travel with Clem was launched, it was as a diary/travel journal/blog. The intention was to make it an online platform where I could document my trips and share it with other people who were also interested in traveling. But seeing the interest, comments and feedback that the blog generated from friends, family and online visitors, I wanted a new way to help. I wanted to not just inspire people to travel, but also show them how it can be done, and how traveling can be included in your daily life. I didn’t just want people to dream about going to amazing places from pictures, I also wanted them take steps and make those dreams become a reality.
HERE IS WHAT YOU WOULD GET FROM THIS WEBSITE
If you’d love to travel the world more, explore more, and get out there more, you’d benefit from the following:
- Destinations recommendations/inspiration on short trips you can take
- Top recommendations on things to do at different destinations
- Strategic advice on how to get time off to travel, how to travel with the time you have, how to maximize on your vacation days
- Strategic advice on how to get more time from your current work to travel
- Specific travel advice and tips that I have tested myself, on the following topics: packing, budgeting, staying healthy and safe during traveling
- Itinerary and trip planning (for mailing list subscribers only)
- Free Travel Consultation on your next trip (for mailing list subscribers only)
If you’re interested in developing yourself more as a holistic individual (personal development), you’d benefit from the following:
- My personal book club access
- Recommendations on books that I have read (individually) on personal development.
Adventurously,
Clem.