Why Travel?
These are people who say their lives are perfect and stress-free, so they have no desire to "escape" through travel. That's great if it works for you and you are content to stay within the boundaries of your world, but it is a rather narrow view. Life is never an either/or situation, and people travel for many reasons. You can love your life and love to travel... or not. Or you can hate your life and travel to get away... or you can hate your life and stay home, miserably thinking about the "what ifs." There is no "one way" to live your life.
Ah, but for me... travel opens a window to the world, one you can't get to by reading a book or watching a video. Being in a busy marketplace in Guatemala, seeing the colors, hearing the sounds, smelling the flowers for sale, touching the textiles... this is to live in the moment, absorbing the richness of the experience. It's seeing with new eyes the universal bond we have with people all over the world.
How else do you get the full impact of standing in the Generalife gardens, looking toward the Alhambra in Granada, Spain, the breeze blowing gently as you experience a moment of deja-vu? It's been 21 years since I was there, but that experience remains rooted in my consciousness. A photo cannot do justice to actually being there.
I guess it boils down to the idea that although I don't "need to" travel because I love my life, I "want to" travel for the very same reason. Yes, it seems the more we travel, the more we add to our bucket list, hoping to pack a lot of new experiences in the life we love.
~ Lisa
Really traveling around the different places in vocations is great fun.
Kate Simon
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