Just Beginning Well Clint, to begin with, for someone your age, I think you have the right spirit. Today the majority of teenagers are usually set on material gain with little thought of seeking to understand and appreciate different cultures first hand or of broadening their minds by seeing “how the other half lives” so to speak. It sounds as though you will likely avoid conventional travelling and go for the adventurous unexpected unplanned expedition and since you say you want this travel experience to be educational then you will be avoiding like the plague any place which has a MacDonalds or Starbucks - right?. I would say - look for the “non-tourist -off the beaten track” destinations. They are the ones which will challenge you both mentally and physically and give you rich memories with which to take you through the middle years and on to the very end!
Your Grandad was probably glad to have a young companion like you with whom to go places. After all when he was your age the kind of travel which you can do today (continent to continent in a few hours) was unknown to him, so the simple conventional trips to England and Scotland which you have described must have been, for him, doing what he wished he could have done all those years ago yet at the same time seeing those same places through the eyes of a contemporary young man. Complimenting this however, it looks as though, through your adolescent years, he has inadvertently kindled in you a desire to broaden your horizons, bringing you now at age seventeen to the point of confidently launching out into the world on your own. In other words it turns out that your travels together have been mutually beneficial.
But your journey has only just begun. Follow through on your dreams in the belief that many years from now you will be able to tell your children and grandchildren of your adventures and thus encourage them to live their lives to the full as you intend to live yours. Best of luck in all that you endeavour and remember the old saying: “The World is Your Oyster”.
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Well Clint, to begin with, for someone your age, I think you have the right spirit. Today the majority of teenagers are usually set on material gain with little thought of seeking to understand and appreciate different cultures first hand or of broadening their minds by seeing “how the other half lives” so to speak. It sounds as though you will likely avoid conventional travelling and go for the adventurous unexpected unplanned expedition and since you say you want this travel experience to be educational then you will be avoiding like the plague any place which has a MacDonalds or Starbucks - right?. I would say - look for the “non-tourist -off the beaten track” destinations. They are the ones which will challenge you both mentally and physically and give you rich memories with which to take you through the middle years and on to the very end! Your Grandad was probably glad to have a young companion like you with whom to go places. After all when he was your age the kind of travel which you can do today (continent to continent in a few hours) was unknown to him, so the simple conventional trips to England and Scotland which you have described must have been, for him, doing what he wished he could have done all those years ago yet at the same time seeing those same places through the eyes of a contemporary young man. Complimenting this however, it looks as though, through your adolescent years, he has inadvertently kindled in you a desire to broaden your horizons, bringing you now at age seventeen to the point of confidently launching out into the world on your own. In other words it turns out that your travels together have been mutually beneficial. But your journey has only just begun. Follow through on your dreams in the belief that many years from now you will be able to tell your children and grandchildren of your adventures and thus encourage them to live their lives to the full as you intend to live yours. Best of luck in all that you endeavour and remember the old saying: “The World is Your Oyster”.