This will be a working blog post and one that I am very excited about. My idea for this post spawned from a conversation I had with my mother and younger sister in a rental car lost in the hills of the central Italian region of Abruzzo. They said, “Kyle, you better not forget about us. Do you miss us when you travel?” I thought about that and I told them, “I wont. The reason I travel to appreciate and love you guys more.” I only began to truely understand this toward the end of my last adventure when I was traveling through India, Myanmar, and Thailand. The feeling I love most about traveling is being inspired, fascinated, and curious at every turn. What that means, at its core, is being able to fall in love with a moment, at any moment. Traveling reminds me how to do that.
But the question begs many more ever-changing answers, why do we travel?
I will be adding answers every time I think of a reason.
- To appreciate what we have at home
- To meet people
- To feel free
- To find higher meanings
- To spawn creativity
- To swim in the bluest waters in the world
- To drink wine in the park in the daytime with complete strangers
- To get lost and get found over and over again
- To discover new passions
- To meet friends of friends
- To start over
- To teach ourselves how to fall in love with a moment
- To have the time to be present
- To have the time to focus on ourselves
- To have the time to focus on our own project
- To have the time to think
- To find inspiration
- To view areas of the world I have only seen in magazines or viewed on television
- For the thrill of adventure.
- For the excitement of delving into the unknown and the adrenaline rush that follows when an unfamiliar situation turns out unexpectedly positive.
- Because of a burning curiosity to understand the world and the people who live in it.
- To know what each country, village, and mountain is like firsthand.
- To better understand myself and what I value when searching for my next home and next steps in life.
- To prove to myself that if I want to go somewhere/do something, I can. And to show the rest of the world that they can too.
- We travel alone because some things are meant to be experienced alone
- We travel alone we it gives us more time to learn about ourselves
- We travel with other people to be inspired by others
- To feel the spirit of another person
- To feel the spirit of someone you know in a new situation
- To feel the spirit of someone you don’t know in a new situation
- To get work experience
- To learn social adaptation
- To have time to draw
- To drink cheaper and better wine
- To eat cheaper and better food
- To avoid paying taxes to the US Government
- To understand the perspectives of other people our age who come from different background
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To view areas of the world I have only seen in magazines or viewed on television
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For the thrill of adventure.
For the excitement of delving into the unknown and the adrenaline rush that follows when an unfamiliar situation turns out unexpectedly positive.
Because of a burning curiosity to understand the world and the people who live in it.
To know what each country, village, and mountain is like firsthand.
To better understand myself and what I value when searching for my next home and next steps in life.
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To prove to myself that if I want to go somewhere/do something, I can. And to show the rest of the world that they can too.
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