Your father is an experienced traveller. Narrate one of such experiences of a trip that you have taken, along with your father.write an essay on this topic.
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When I was 21, I spread my wings and flew across the Atlantic to spend three months studying, volunteering, and traveling in South Africa. I hiked Table Mountain overlooking the ocean, woke up at the crack of dawn to watch the sunrise, survived a close encounter with an angry and charging elephant, and jumped off the world’s highest bungee jumping bridge with only a cord around my ankles.
The common thread amongst all of these experiences was the thought I had just afterward. “I wish my Dad was here experiencing this with me.”
My Dad: the man I grew up knowing as a big kid and daredevil, who worked long hours for his family, and who I probably took for granted more often than I’d like to admit. As a third year college student across the world, he’s the one I wanted beside me as I tasted so much of life for the first time. He was the one who had been introducing me to adventure since I was three; it didn’t feel right without him there.
Seven years and nine countries later, that feeling hasn’t changed.
This Father’s Day, my first on a different continent, I’m realizing so much of my father is actually with me no matter how far away I go.
Be it your father, grandfather, uncle, or some other father-like-figure (including moms!), the life lessons and support you’ve received from them doesn’t fade away when you step off the plane into a foreign city. In fact, traveling abroad can allow you to see so much more of the influence your father has had, and still has, in your life.