Lessons Learned: Traveling After Graduation

I believe everyone should travel after graduation if they have the time and money. I was lucky. I managed to negotiate with my job to have me start working a month and a half after graduation. This gave me time to travel back to Thailand to visit my extended family there. I had saved a bit of money, enough for airfare and that's all I needed since my family took care of the rest.

It was nice to be in Thailand. I'm not sure if it's a cultural thing or I have a very giving extended family. My dad gave me money, his wife (my stepmom) gave me money, and my "uncle" gave me some, too. My aunt took me sightseeing and my other aunt had arranged for us to stay with her friend in Hua Hin (their house was amazing and my boyfriend aspires to have an even better one than the place we stayed). Below are pictures from Hua Hin. It helps to stay with friends and relatives when traveling to cut down on hotel costs.

Front of the house with this awesome restore revolving wooden door.

Back view of the house and the guest house. 

The upper floor of the guest house is an office and 

the lower floor contains two guest rooms and a bathroom.

I love the layout and design of the whole place. 

Is it a coincidence that the man who owns the place is Swedish? (Think IKEA.)

A good portion of their house was outdoors.

So back to my reality since being in Thailand was almost surreal.