Travel With The Wind
The world explored by Claudia and Gabri
Claudia and Gabri travel together from more than 15 years, And they had the awareness of being able to travel anywhere after their trip to Japan. Travel With The Wind it is the blog where they tell us about their travels!
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YOU GOT MARRIED IN LAS VEGAS! THIS IS A DREAM FOR MANY PEOPLE, YOU CAN TELL US ABOUT THIS EXPERIENCE?
Your wedding day is a unique experience for everyone. For us it was twice, not only because we lived it the way we wanted, but also because it was an integral part of our first trip to the United States.
We decided to get married just as we were planning the trip, reading on our trusted Lonely Planet that the marriage celebrated in Las Vegas could have legal value in Italy if regularly registered. Think that almost no one in Italy was aware of our crazy idea but, when we announced it upon our return, everyone was enthusiastic about it.
We got married on a very hot day in May when they were in Las Vegas 47 degrees and, outdoor, it was impossible to do anything (the only way not to melt was to take advantage of the air conditioning present in every building in the city). We therefore chose to get married at a slightly cooler time, they were the 18 (middle of the night in Italy) and a white limousine picked us up at the Stratosphere (the tallest tower in the city which also serves as a hotel). The first gift of the day was given to me by a beautiful black girl with braids, That, seeing me leave the hotel room dressed as a bride, he smiled at me and said “You are so beautiful”. Already leaving the hotel, many stopped us to congratulate us, wondering if we were going to get married or if we already had, it felt like being on the catwalk of Hollywood stars, at that moment we were the stars!. The limousine, who was waiting for us in front of the hotel, took us to the Little Church of the West, a small wooden church that I chose because it reminded me of the Ingles family's house on the prairie (for those who are not our age it is a cult TV series from the 80s) where Gabri and I expressed our intention to become husband and wife by responding to the ritual phrase with “Yes, I do”.
It was an unforgettable moment, even if it was just us, or maybe because it was just us, as was our evening: we stayed in our formal dresses all evening and, around Las Vegas, Everywhere we went we received congratulations from everyone we met, there were even those on the other side of the street who shouted "CONGRATULATION" to us or those who had their photograph taken by the bride or those who told us about their honeymoon in Italy or even those who took us as an example to encourage their partner to get married.
The moments spent in Las Vegas were unique: it was this city and its surprising inhabitants that made our wedding day even more unforgettable.
I READ ABOUT YOUR TRIP TO KYRGYZSTAN, TUTTO ON THE ROAD. WHAT A WONDERFUL ADVENTURE! WHAT AFFECTED YOU MOST?
Not only a wonderful adventure but also a wonderful country and people.
It was definitely an adventure a bit because of the language, In fact, in Kyrgyzstan it is difficult to find someone who understands English (they mostly speak Kyrgyz and Russian) and partly because a large part of the country is still wild (this is its main beauty) with dirt roads where we often happened to be the only foreigners passing by.
We were very impressed by the fact that we could camp freely, we usually looked for places far from homes so as not to disturb too much but it still happened that someone came to visit us specifically (in some cases the owner of the land) and I must say that it is on these occasions that we understood how friendly the Kyrgyz people were: they arrived (on foot or on horseback), they introduced themselves shaking hands, they told us something in their language (which of course we didn't understand), we introduced ourselves by telling him that we were Italian (the word Italy in Russian is pronounced the same way), once you understand (credo) that we were people who could be trusted leaving as they arrived. This was perhaps the only thing that disappointed us on this trip, not having been able to interact much with these wonderful people.
Which country has kidnapped your heart?
There is no particular country, we have left a piece of our heart in every part of the world we have visited (each for different reasons).
There are countries that have changed our lives, like the United States where we got married and Japan which made me fall in love with its culture and the sound of the language so much that I decided to start studying Japanese as soon as I returned home. Then there are the countries where we have left our hearts for the humanity and hospitality of the people like Oman, Jordan and Kyrgyzstan, which I talked about above. Or even countries where everything is wonderful and every meter you walk you can't help but exclaim "wow" like Iceland, Colorado and Utah (in the Western United States) and of course Kyrgyzstan.
To answer your question: It is a country that encompasses the whole world that has captured our hearts!
What do you do to make your travels more ecological?
Traveling by plane and by car unfortunately doesn't make our trips so eco-friendly but in our own small way we always pay particular attention to the environment that surrounds us, after all, the search for natural landscape beauty is precisely the reason why we travel.
When we camp we always look for areas where we are sure not to ruin the environment below when we pitch the tent and when we leave we return everything to its natural state: if we have moved stones we put them back in their place, we take away all waste even if it is organic and we erase all signs of our presence. It happens to us, unfortunately more and more frequently, to leave the area cleaner than it was before we arrived because we also collect the waste left there by those who preceded us.
The important thing for us is to continue to behave when traveling according to the rules that we have imposed on ourselves and that we also follow at home: we travel by car only if necessary, we prefer quiet driving, avoiding sudden accelerations, At the supermarket we pay attention to the packaging we buy, preferring recyclable ones, to transport the shopping we use the fabric bags that we bring from home, limiting the purchase of plastic ones only if we need rubbish bags, We only use waste bins if there are no separate waste bins.
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