WHY TRAVEL? SOME ANSWERS FROM THE FIELD

Why travel when you’ve got all the comforts at home? Who doesn’t like comforts?

Aw, those slippers, that coffee mug. Oh that recliner.

You won’t find those anywhere else, and that’s the problem.

Some people are afraid to find out there is a different world than the one they currently live in.

Why travel when fear is a constant companion?

So what if you find a better mug, a better chair. I skip the slips because you’ll take them with you.

The solution? Take a trip, take a drive, take a chance. After all, how could there be a better chair?

Your chair has context, a provenance. You know your chair like a family member. Maybe you cried when your last chair wore out?

The best answer to ‘why travel?’ Because you get to come back home and everything looks new. Go ahead and kiss the ground, embrace the front door.

If you get to travel, you’re a lucky one. Best of all, you’re lucky you’ll gain the perspective of more than one place.

That experience alone will improve your attitude. Home is home, baby. And it’s sweet. Nothing proves it better than some time out in the world.

Take it from Mark Twain:

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”

“It liberates the vandal to travel — you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.”