You may be asking yourself, who the hell is this person? Maybe not? Well, allow me the honors. My name is PJ and im a travel-aholic, this is where everyone says "hi PJ" and it echoes throughout the room as the audience waits for my spiel. Here we go...
Mad 80s swagger
When I was a child at the ripe age of 6 I got a blacked out Huffy BMX bike for christmas. I can remember bolting out the front door in my Alf underwear and riding around the block until my skin was purple from the bitter cold. The freedom, the excitement of going somewhere, the rush of the unknown took over me. It was the begining of my path to explore far and wide.
Since those days of innocence the huffy bike morphed into the form of a passport and a 36 liter bag, and less innocence. When I was 20 I encountered adult hardships like working a 9-5, bills piling up, stress, and terrible relationships. All within normal parameters of early adulthood. However, I never considered myself normal by any means. I was looking for something that was missing in my life but every turn i took was a dead end on finding said "thing".
I remember meeting her, long dark brown hair, flowy flower dress, twirling around the polo fields at Coachella. She looked at me and said in a thick Ozzy accent "Oi ratbag, you've got ciggys, see em in your pocket". Needless to say I had fallen in love immediately with this magical little koala bear from Australia. I knew at this point and time I was more than likely quitting my job the following Tuesday and selling everything I owned to go the furthest south I had ever been.
Fate had made my decision for me, fate found what I had been looking for this whole time. Her name was...travel 🤣
First time stepping on foreign soil in Fiji circa 2007
From 2007 until current I have been blessed in visiting over 70 countries, living as a resident in 3 countries. I have experienced the highest of highs (quite literally) and the lowest of lows (also literally). I travelled alone with just my small backpack, camera, and the essentials. I've never been the checklist type, rather the opposite. I caroused from adventure to adventure, no roadmap, no plan.
I was gifted a 5 Frank coin from a man traveling overland from Europe to Asia of which became my deciding fate flipper. Without research, without planning I would get a crazy idea in my mind, take the fiver coin out...and flip it.
"Yes or no" "Left or right" "India or Oman" "Fried rice or mystery meat"
I'm excited to share these experiences with the Hive community. The good, the bad, and the ugly, no shame in my game. My main goal here is to share stories from my journey through life and engage with like minded individuals. I wish to continue my path of freedom and the search for true happiness. Please follow along and feel free to call me out on shotty grammar or anything of the like. I hope people will engage with me and possibly be inspired in one way or another to follow their dreams of travel or whatever it may be.
Adjacent to Mt. Ama Dablam Sagarmartha region Nepal
Just last week I was lucky enough to meet a jolly fella with an infectious laugh and a deep passion for the crypto world, travel, and most of all true freedom Mr @intothewild let me in on this awesome platform. I am forever thankful for his kindness and intellect. Now you guys are stuck with me!
Pleasure to meet all of you. I hope you will engage, give criticism, ask questions, share information, and most of all not fall asleep while reading my content...
Until next post Mahalo and enjoy! thank you
Hi PJ, welcome to Hive! Another traveller, can't wait to see where you've been and you sharing your experiences.
I'm from Pinmapple and the haveyoubeenhere team, and we're the Hive travel community. Pinmapple is the Hive travel map, like the ones you stick on your wall except its better as it's online and you can pin your Hive travel posts on it. haveyoubeenhere is the mobile travel app. We're here to support all quality travel content creators on Hive, so come and check us out. If you have any questions, feel free to drop by our discord channel or drop a message on any one of our daily #TravelDigest posts. Enjoy your Hive journey and hope to see you in a few the community soon https://peakd.com/c/hive-163772/created
Excellent! I look forward to contributing. Thank you for sharing the info im subscribed, cheers
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Im speechless at the love shown here! thank you
I was brought here after reading your onion travel to India. I haven't really made a proper welcome so here it is: Welcome to Hive!
Based on your two posts alone, I can sense that you are seasoned with all these travel things. The depth of your write up is fascinating. It's as if I've been experiencing your experience as I read your content.
I'm with the Pinmapple and Haveyoubeenhere team so I hope to read and curate more of your travel posts soon! Feel free to ping us if in case you encounter difficulties with anything related to Hive.
Nice intro mate! Hilarious, relatable, etc... Pleased to meet you!
Tah matey! Means a lot, looking forward to sharing more and most of all learning!
legend!!! Sick intro bro! Was checking in daily to see if you had started your journey yet, am more than happy now to have waited for this one!@pjmetz, the man, the myth, the
Being a Cali native, I’m sure you could have some good convos with my buddy @dandays.
Welcome bud! So happy to have you here!
Haha thanks man! It excites me to dig in my 4tb hard drive and go through the last 13 years of my life looking for stories to share. Im not too good at introducing myself but I gave it my best. Thank you for your support amigo!
I will for sure hit up @dandays
Yeah, like how the sun shines and it doesn't rain but don't get me started cuz then I'll get all tangenty about how it doesn't matter right now anyway cuz damn planes ain't cooperating for shit!!
Wassup @pjmetz?! Heck of an intro you got here, I don't think the platform likes you at all, can you tell? Welcome to Hive.
Hey dude, nice to meet you. I like to think of California as US occupied Mexico. Its sunny and beautiful, bomb mexican eats, and tons of tiangies (swap meets with culture). I just cant give the cops $10 to let me off a speeding ticket which is why I dont live there anymore 🤣
Im feeling so much love on here its overwhelming really. I cant wait to finish my first real story post. Cheers
We haven't been back there since 2017. I don't know how many people believe me when I say the best Mexican food in the world is in California but I mean it.
You're gonna pay to park your car to get it, don't cross without the light, hide your tattoos if you see a cop and no eye contact! Toll roads, you name it.. it's the best! All in all about $260 for a torta but they're fuckin good.
Pleasure to be met. I've used that exact word for it, 'overwhelming.'
Haha you got it man, my last cellphone ticket was $400 in LA and ironically I was eating the shittiest meximerican food of all...Taco Bell (while on the phone 😄). So, Id actually take a $260 torta over $400 Taco bell 🤣
Welcome to Hive, JP! Great intro post. @intothewild is my brother and shared the great times he had down in Mexico with you and few others. I look forward to reading more of your travel stories. Sounds like you have some amazing tales to share!
PJ* it flipped on me.
The love in this space is off the hook! So basically you and everyone have made my day and I thank you for that! cheers amigo
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Welcome! More travelers are always needed around here :)
Thank you so much Sofia, Im looking forward to sharing! I have a good writeup in the works as we speak 🙏
Excellent! I hope to read you soon here, join the Haveyoubeenhere community :)
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Welcome to the Hive blockchain and platform, Yes its happening you are a hiver or Bee as we are calling ourselves now. This is the moment to warm welcome you as a new user. And you receive this message because you used the #introduceyourself tag!
I was welcomed with good advice too when I started so here I am returning the favour. I know that Hive may seem very overwhelming right now but don't worry. After a few blog you will be a great blogger and contributor.
If you have any questions just ask your questions on any of my blog posts and I'll be more than happy to assist you with whatever questions you may have! I may know the answer. If not I will know someone who does.
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