Dear @ybanezkim26 how nice that you were able to successfully untangle all the red tape that exists in most of our countries, and start your first travel adventure outside your beloved country.
Reading about your particular odyssey, of travel documents and papers needed to emigrate, I thought a lot about what awaits me when, if God and my circumstances allow me, I will also have to make my first trip outside the borders of my country.
I always had, like you, that restlessness, dream or supreme energy that drives you to travel. I started by getting to know all the states that make up my small country (23 in total). Today I can say that I really know quite well the place where I was born, with some emblematic places within one or another state that are there in the waiting list. I was always focused on that first, getting to know my homeland. Traveling abroad was on the back burner.
Your experience gives me more enlightenment regarding the groundwork that needs to be laid before kicking off the fulfillment of an immigration goal.
Thank you so much for sharing your travel life experience. I hope soon to have the opportunity to read the details of your adventures!