What's Your Most Consistent Habit For The Last 5 Years?: May 30 Days Writing Challenge - Day 8

My most consistent hobby for the last 5 years is traveling. I have been travelling consistently from 2012 till date.

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Though all of my travelings has been within the different states in my country. I look forward to traveling to other countries of the world soon. The first time I had the opportunity to travel outside my state was in 2009, during my high school days when I went for an Excursion at Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike.

When I got admitted into the University, my travelling experience got much better, as I got exposed to more opportunities to travel.

I enjoy traveling long distances, the chatter from other passengers in the bus, the sound of music that keeps blaring from my headset, the beautiful sight of forests and trees, buildings and people going about their normal day businesses and more.

I rarely read during my travels, but I've enjoyed a couple of books and novels during some of my travels.

In 2012, I traveled to Ibadan for the first time, it was for an academic conference/competition which held at the University of Ibadan (Nigeria's premier University), we were lodging in an hotel within the heart of Ibadan. Asides the conference, I had the privilege of touring the city which is one of the largest and oldest city in West Africa. I enjoyed the sight of ancient Abrahamic buildings with brown roofs as brownish as the Color of the cabs that ply the city. This experience and more later fueled my passion of returning to the ancient city.

At Delta state during my NYSC

In 2013, I travelled to Port Harcourt, Rivers and stayed there for an outreach. In the same year, I also spent some time at Yenogoa, the capital city of Bayelsa for a conference.

My first time of traveling to Lagos was for SPAN conference which held at the University of Lagos, Akoka in 2014. I had the opportunity of also getting to see my elder sister who resides in Lagos. Lagos is indeed a bubbling city. The next time I visited Lagos, it was on an official trip to a company (Pz Wilmer) from a company I was working for in Delta (IMC).

At Jos, Plateau state, battling the cold

My first traveling experience to the North was in 2015, Kwara state, I was at the University of Ilorin for an academic conference/quiz competition. The following year I spent some time in Jos, Plateau state. Jos is as cold as Ice.

I have travelled several times to the East and spent some time there. I've been to Imo, Anambra and Abia specifically. I was in Delta for my NYSC from 2016 - 2017.

Earlier this year, I had the privilege of traveling again to North, Nassarawa and Abuja, for a steem meet-up with @lordjames and @xpency respectively.

on my way back from Abuja

I've had a wonderful time too staying in the west; Ogun, Ondo, Lagos, Osun and currently Ibadan (OYO).

The fascinating thing is that, each of these places I travel to hold a beautiful piece of me, and these pieces make up my life story.

One of my long-term goals is to travel all the 36 states of my country and 109 countries of the world.

Travelling has been my most consistent hobby for the last 5 years.

Thank you for your time.

This challenge is the initiative of @dragosroua, if you're interested in joining or knowing more about it, Just click HERE

Here are my previous entries to the challenge;

• Day 1: How Did I Get On Steemit?
• Day 2: If I Got 1000 STEEM Tomorrow; What I Would Do With It
• Day 7: Three things to be done immediately to make Steemit.com a better experience