Top Ten Reasons to Travel
http://www.criativophoto.com/2011/03/top-ten-reasons-to-travel-top-10.html
10- To experience different climates! When you live in Seattle, sometimes you need some sunshine close to the equator when you’ve been in gray, drizzly rain for the last four months. I’m just saying!
9- To meet new people! On our most recent trip to Costa Rica we became friends with locals, international students, and other travelers. We volunteered with YWAM and met amazing locals from Costa Rica and many other students from around the world. We also met a local family who my uncle knows and introduced us to online, then we met in person in San Jose. We also made lots of new friends with other travelers.
Hint: To try to become friends with the locals, speak their language. Even if you don’t know much, try, the gesture goes a long ways!
8- To get away from normal life! I love not watching TV, answering phone calls, and not being constantly “plugged in”. When we travel there are way too many things to do and see then to spend all our time connected. You know life is good when the only pressures you have are to decide what to do and where to eat!!!
7- To experience culture! There are many similarities between humans around the globe, but there are also many things that make us different. Find those things and treasure them. Language, architecture, hobbies, transportation, fashion, religion, etc.
6- To realize that you don’t need much to survive! It’s amazing how much “stuff” we have at home that we think we need. When we travel we learn that all we need is food, clothes, shelter, and a little money for the “extra” stuff.
5- To experience activities you can’t do at home! When in Rome, do as the Romans. When in Hawaii, surf. When in Australia, dive. When in Colorado, ski or snowboard. When in the Alps, hike. You get the idea- do amazing things you wouldn’t have the opportunity to do otherwise.
4- To try new things! Eat new foods, strike up a conversation with a stranger, do something adventurous. My husband is afraid of heights, but when he travels, he “does as the Romans do.” While traveling he has flown in a helicopter, zipped off a platform 600 feet above the ground, and taken gondolas up the Swiss Alps.
3- To get out of your bubble! Get out of your comfort zone and experience the world the way other people do. Do what they do, eat what they eat, find joy in the things they find joy in!
2- You only live once! You’ll never look back at the end of your life and wish you hadn’t gone on that vacation. You will realize that travel enriches your life and that it helped make you who you are. Do the things you want to do, travel the world, learn, see, absorb and enjoy everything that our wonderful earth has to offer us.
And the number one reason to travel from a photographer’s standpoint…
1- To take awesome photographs! Take pictures to capture the memories for when your mind starts to forget them.
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