Why should you Travel?
Why travel?
There are about a million reasons out there pack your bag and hit the road.
Maybe you want experience.
To witness the finest Japanese sumo wrestlers practice their dying craft.
Maybe you dream of adventure.
To stand atop a mountain you climbed through the night, looking into the distance as the sun rises and lights up the sky.
Maybe you are presented with an opportunity.
To take a ride through the French countryside and savor the finest wines in the Loire valley.
Maybe you just want a change in your life.
Any of these and endless other reasons are more than enough to get you out the and experiencing the world. But there’s more to it than just getting out the door. The reasons for leaving aren’t the same as the perks you get while doing it.
Consider broadening your thoughts.
Don’t just think of a reason to leave. Don’t travel just to say you moved about somewhere.
Think about what kind of experience you want to have, the character of your travels.
What is important to you?
What do you want from trail?
Why shall you travel?
About wanderoverhere
“Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines… you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That is not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating.”
Michael Crichton, 1988
Welcome to wanderoverhere.
Who?
Hey! I’m Harley. Nice to meet you. I’m a girl constantly on the lookout to gratify my curiosity about the world through travel. My first taste was a hop across the pond to France when I was 14. I returned 4 years later to explore a little more of Europe, and 3 years after that (this past summer) went straight to the Land of the Rising Sun to live and study for 2 1/2 months. And I can’t ever get enough.
What?
wanderoverhere is a travel blog aimed at inspiring travel and learning in others.
Travel teaches and brings us back to ourselves; no matter who you are or where you’ve been there’s always something to be learned.
Where?
Here, there, anywhere, everywhere, and nowhere.
Travel is as familiar as our bodies, the earth, the wind, and is at all times and places a point of reference for metaphors, and a resource of meaning.
When?
Always.
Learning takes place constantly; while traveling, after, as reflection. It just takes a minute to recognize the value and closeness travel and learning have.
Why?
Because it’s not just about learning where the cool vacation spots are.
A vacation is an escape from life; travel is the capture of it.
Travel
Weaves the fabric of our lives
Allows for self discovery
Necessitates an awareness of self
Develops character
Enhances intelligence
Reminds us who we really are
Offers a chance for reflection
Validates our curiosity
Enables a sense of overall well being
Revitalizes our way of seeing the world
Helps us connect with others
Erects lifelong memories
Requests a test that brings a certainty of self
Enables the greatest learning of all
The goal is to share what I and others have and continue to learn through travel and to encourage others to do the same.
So, wherever you are from and whoever you are you can wander. Be it by your feet or your brain, or both; explore, discover, inspire, travel, learn.
…wanderoverhere.
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