iTOURIST

...Glad to be here yet again.

I hope you're having a wonderful weekend to remember?...

So, in my previous two storylines I told you about how I first started traveling officially, the perks I enjoyed while at it and then this THIRD storyline should be my version of TOURING, but permit me to move it to the next storyline..

Permission granted?

Ha! 

Thank you...

While you anticipate it let me use this opportunity to throw more light on the reasons I came to be a TOURIST, While not forgetting to add a Local Tourist at that👋🏾..

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...At first my mom took me on trips.. and so I was just "handbagging" with her... Then when I was Sixteen I begged to be allowed  to make my own trip.. That which I started in storyline ONE & TWO.

Basically it was trips made solely for official purposes like schools, camps and so on.. While touring I discovered to a great deal that something always filled me up and that it was overwhelmingly exciting and difficult to hold my excitement.

I loved it!

It was and still is the best feeling there was.⬆️

REASON WHY I GO ON TOURS⬇️

Every human is at one point or the other looking for something, maybe something to make us feel better, free, alive , wanted, better appreciated and so forth.. We go to any extent to reach out for it and I am no different.

I am always on the move in search of Happiness, thrill, fun and Newness. You can call it my addiction, I call it Peace. I am peaceful when I go on tours whether for pleasure sake or official matters, the process of getting my luggage stocked with all that I need, leaving my house bearing in mind that something new will emerge from my trip chills me with excitement.

Every time I go on tours "pardon my continuous usage"  but that's the highest slang I use to term my doings, I discover that I'm in search of something new, like something is missing and I have to find it. 

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As a tourist you will be in an endless search of a missing puzzle, a new tourist sight, a certain new way of life, culture & tradition, people & manners and the likes that follow suit . Each time you find it, you discover you still want more, you realize there are other places yet to be discovered by YOU and so you make everything possible that you do get to your destination. 

Trust me it is an endless circle of life...

Another reason why I go on tours is because often than most... a change of environment is needed to help a human being function in his/her best capacity, what I mean is the mind, the brain and circulation of blood needs some form of triggered excitement to stimulate you and trigger your senses.

It is like donating your blood! for every donation you make you get to be refilled with new flow of blood which is pumped and flows from your heart to your entire body.. It allows your system function properly... ... I know you want me to explain more...

It is like the animal kingdom, no species of animal stay in one spot year in year out.. They migrate to other parts of the forest, sea and so on, it is a basic necessity of life to  MIGRATE ..

It helps the functionality of one's persona.

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So I engage myself willfully to help follow the process of life.

New things, places, culture and interaction with new people always has its own advantage to our socialization in our given society.

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I promise not to converse over the board...

I could go on and on but I will have to halt our conversation here till the next STORYLINE.

Feel free to ask questions by hinting the comment section ⬇️ and I will be swift to reply.

Continuation ⬇️

Hey!

I took a short break off... You know, telling a story such as mine thrills me.. But at same time I have to let every piece sink in!

...... My trip to Zaria from Abuja (Gwagwalada) was right early in the morning, I left the lodge at about Six O'clock to the high way park.. Got in to the old wagon that was our shuttle .. We were all squeezed up like marshed potatoes.. and it was difficult to feel ones buttocks on the seat..

While that was giving me so much discomfort, to my amazement I found a slim pretty boy smiling next to me.. I quickly focused my attention on him to help ease my mind of the stress my buttocks was facing...

We chitchatted for a lengthy time and I found out from him that Zaria was home to the scholarly..

Seated pretty was (Ahmadu Bello University) ABU Zaria, Aviation College, several polytechnics and other giants of academia .. It was indeed much to appreciate.

Aside that, I was thrilled by the sights of hills, rocks and the width of the road network.. seemly it was at that period recently constructed. 

You know the road to Zaria, could be occupied by party lovers in a grand festival and yet still have enough space for cars to graciously drive through. The view was wonderful to behold.

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On getting to Zaria.. I Boarded a bike to ABU Zaria and at the gate met my host(my Cousin) ..

I made friends quickly and was shown few places around the confines of the school.

The school was a gracious sight to behold.. Beautiful structures and nicely gardened, I felt like I was in a world Unknown but yet very familiar to my future view.

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The CUISINE 🔽

One I will never forget and love to try once again!

Masa, (Rice cake) as it is popularly called..

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Fura, (milk & millet gruel) their local yogurt...

I have to get the ingredients and photo shown here, trust me when I say it was one of the few best ever I had.

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I got acquainted with some southerners (Delta State of Origin) and Northerners (Kano & kaduna) who were students at the time (Medical Students) they made me fall in love with the place and I forgot my home!

The night life was chilly, same as the day time life.

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...Then .. my stay was on its final wraps and I didn't feel like leaving .. But as they say all good things gets to a halt till you relive them again.

AND I CAN't wait till that happens!

N/B : 

On my next storyline, I would be telling you proper what I think fits right with me in TOURING Local places, till then Cheerio for now👋🏾

First TIME!

Hello!

I'm Gigi Imolade from Bayelsa State, Nigeria, Africa.
I loved trips right from a tender age and since then, I have found my way through to falling 100% in love with trips !

I started my tours officially at the sweet age of 16teen!

Well, it so happened that I just graduated from College & venturing to attend tertiary Institution.
...And was heading to Zaria, in Kaduna "Ahmadu Bello University "  for Entrance Examination.

And that was the beginning and continuity to my amazing Travel Life!

The trip was a thrilling one I will always cherish forever..
Boarded from Port-Harcourt in Rivers State with a "RiversLine" a stationed Peugeot wagon of  Seven occupants (Driver Inclusive Eight).

That  was the longest trip for a start.. And most exciting one at that!
I had enough cash on me to buy whatever!
No supervision (travelling alone)!
Sights of different shapes of houses!
Road network!
Etc... Etc...

The stopovers was epic!
Oh at one point my feet got swallowen.. So our stopovers was a great relief to me!

We passed , Bayelsa..
                    Delta...
                    Edo..
                    Kogi...
And on getting to Abuja... We made a final stop.

Well, that wasn't my final destination.. I still had to forge ahead but it was dark already & so I lodged in a local hotel worth ONE THOUSAND NARIA per night.. It was mmm.... I leave that for another day.

So the next morning... I boarded a BUS heading to Kaduna for about FIVE HUNDRED NARIA , then took another to ZARIA my final destination for about TWO HUNDRED NARIA...
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TO BE CONTINUED