STATE OF LOVE AND TRAVEL
The rock travel of Sara
Some trips have a soundtrack, and Sara's travels have a rock sound, woven to the tune of Pearl Jam State of Love and Travel is the blog where Sara tells us about her do-it-yourself trips and chosen destinations to follow her idols.
Welcome to Easy Travel hosting! State of love and travel, a very nice name for a blog. Where did it come from and why did you decide to open it??
Hello lads, thank you for this opportunity and for all the support I have always received from you since I decided to rely on your hosting!
The name of my blog is a tribute, a declaration of love to what is the great passion of my life, in addition to travel: Pearl Jam's music. It all comes from State of Love and Trust, one of my favorite songs. Travel and rock'n'roll are two such strong passions for me and also so intertwined with each other, that this merger was quite automatic. I like to think that every Jammer (of day Pearl Jam) whoever happens to pass by my blog will instantly catch the mention in the name and immediately feel a bit at home!
I discovered this band when I was at university. At the time, not having a job, I invested my savings and Christmas presents / birthday / etc. to follow them on tour around Europe. Tour life has shaped me a lot as a traveler: I learned to be a citizen of the world, to have a frenetic pace, organize multi-stage trips and above all to have a great spirit of adaptation! 🙂 Alas, barriers don't fall from the sky so we adapt: sleeping bag on a sidewalk, dinners of dubious taste taken at the local minimarket, few hours of sleep, km and km driven.. and a lot of joy! And this is now my way of traveling.. sidewalk excluded! 🙂
That's how I started and gradually I started traveling more and more, fitting in both tours and other extra-tour trips, becoming very good at "multiplying" the days of vacation available to me.
There's always been that "one day I'll open a travel blog" thing in the air but I'll tell you the truth, I think in the end I would never have really taken the plunge. Thanks to this nice pandemic, only, at Christmas I found myself with two weeks of holiday to spend locked in the house and I knew I would go crazy. So I decided to take the plunge and at the beginning of January I bought your hosting!
A combination that we feel very close to is that of rock and travel. Could you tell us about how many of your travels have been based on stops with what I imagine is your favorite band?
In the first few years my travels coincided with the European legs of Pearl Jam's tour (not all unfortunately but 5/6 give yes). In fact this has allowed me to visit many capitals even if in a hit and run mode. I chose cities based on a series of interlocking factors: places not yet visited / Places where I imagined they would have played the most ganze ladders / places that fed better to each other as dates to be able to make as many concerts as many days as possible. I learned in this way to multiply the holidays! 🙂
I have also been seeing them several times in America. One of the travels I am most proud of, The one that is part of the category "Pazzia which I would redo other eight thousand times", It was the one in Florida for their tour of the 2016. They played in April, very unlucky period for holidays. And therefore? Journey to Florida of 6 days with 4 days of vacation, 3 concerts, Fort Lauderdale + Miami + Tampa, A day at the Keys and return to a very direct work after landing in the morning at dawn. Maybe a little crazy but me-to-vi-garlic-so.
Vietnam and Cambogia, describe them with two songs and tell us why you chose them!
My song for Vietnam is “Last Kiss”, in the version made famous by Pearl Jam. Ero ad Hoi An (delightful village and an unmissable stop on a trip to Vietnam) and my husband had a high fever so he was confined to the hotel. I went for a walk alone and stopped for dinner along the river which every evening is colored with lights and lanterns and becomes an incredible spectacle. Music was coming from the other side of the river and a girl started singing Last Kiss.
…Last Kiss! …in Vietnam!! Crazy.
My song for Cambodia is “Lullaby” by The Cure. In the video Robert Smith is happily about to become a giant spider's dinner. “I realize with fright that the spiderman is having me for dinner tonight”. I relate this song to my visit to Skuon, a small town that is called “Spiderville” because, to the delight of Robert Smith, here the roles are reversed and it is the spiders that are listed on the menu. It has now become a tourist destination: flocks of tarantulas that are raised in the surrounding villages and then fried and offered as appetizers. Some are deprived of their poisonous claws and happily wander around the village to take photos with tourists.. at least until the Cambodians get peckish!
What do you do to make your travels more ecological?
I know that the first thing to do would be to avoid taking all these planes but unfortunately time is not in my favor. However, the good habit remains, once on site, to move as much as possible on foot. Walking is good for us, It is good for the planet and allows you to discover many more views.
Another essential thing is the general respect for the environment. The mountain teaches very much in this sense: DO NOT leave trace of your passage is important, so the waste must always be brought home. It seems easy but just look around to understand that not everyone does it..
Finally, another cute thing is always trying to rely on local tour operators when excursions are organized. Maybe it's a bit’ more complicated at the organizational level (But it's not even said!) But it helps local people and many times it is certainly more interesting.
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