The first time traveler like me

Think about traveling to another country and how exciting it would be. When I went to El Salvador for the first time in 2005 I was so excited to visit the place of my parents hometown where they grew up. They always talked about how much they missed it and how the day they would go back to visit would be the best day ever especially traveling as a family. From the moment I set foot on that plane I knew that I was going to want to travel the world.

Knowing that traveling was going to be my blogging topic for the rest of the semester I started to look at other travel/tip blogs and I came across http://www.woltersworld.com/. He was so much information I did not know about when going to another country (he also has a youtube channel so check him out here!). I also started to look at a book I saw in the library called " The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World" and you would not believe how big the book is. It talks about 230 countries and gives a little history description of each of the countries. 

I love different cultures and to one day experience that it would be so awesome. So what can I expect when going to another country? For starters the money in other countries will be different, so if you were to travel to Europe you would have to use the Euro or in England the English Pound. Second would the language barrier. Spanish being my first language I can definitely use that to my benefit if I were going to South America (except in Brazil because they speak Portuguese but it sounds a little like Spanish), Mexico, Central America and even Spain. Also know what to pack! You don't want to over pack because you're going to want to bring back some souvenirs for yourself, family and friends!  

I'm going to do as much research to help myself and others out for what to know when traveling!