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Want An Effortless Education? Travel Often

Whether you are an adventurous traveler others can walk for miles without a
who scales mountains and hikes break. After spending a week in France
through jungles or you are a lover of looking at buildings designed by the
creature comforts who lives for five star architect Corbusier, I finally rented a
hotels, travel will teach you some of car
life's great lessons. It does not matter and went to San Tropez. Everyone was
if you were born a beach bum or are an happier after that.
art enthusiast travel will enrich your Rain is beautiful too: The sun does not
life. have to shine to make a place
Whether you prefer traveling in groups beautiful; standing in the rain in a
or going it alone, if you are a rain forest is as beautiful as sitting in
planner or spontaneous your life will the sun in Portofino.
benefit by traveling away from what you Beauty is all around you, just look and
know. You don't have to go far, you may see: Treat yourself to the
or may not cross oceans, take a plane, colors in the landscape in New Mexico
train or car the important thing is that and the lack of contrast between the
you explore the world outside of your water, ice and landscape on a cloudy day
community. in Newfoundland.
What will you discover? New York City is not the US, Paris is
Look at the familiar through new eyes: not France: You learn not to
Travel to a place you know well judge a country by one city - New York
with someone who has never been there City is not representative of the United
before. On a trip to Pittsburgh, where I States and Paris is not representative
grew up, my niece and her boyfriend of France.
showed me a city full of unique and Old is a state of mind: In some
charming countries old is measured in thousands
old neighborhoods, museums dedicated to of years in other countries it is
things such as ketchup, Andy Warhol and measured in hundreds of years. In people,
the birth of the labor movement. I also old
saw that the view of the three rivers is a state of mind, if you are young
from Mount Washington is as beautiful as look around you at older travelers who
any large city vista. are
We are small: Walk through the redwood walking the same paths as you only with
forests in California or hike canes and walking sticks often with a
through Rocky Mountain National Park and smile on their face.
you will discover just how small we When disaster strikes: Traveling makes
are. you feel empathy when disaster
There are more similarities than strikes. How many people cried after
differences: Stand on the shore Hurricane Katrina remembering the people
in Nova Scotia, Canada and then the they had met in New Orleans or Biloxi?
coast of Brittany in France you will The tourist trade helped revive the
notice economy of Southeast Asia after the
the similarities in the landscape and tsunami hit in 2004.
the people even though these two places Imagine: Take a break and imagine what
are separated by an ocean. daily life is like in the place
You can be someone else: I have had you are visiting, and then think of what
people think I was Dutch in Lucca, it was like a hundred years ago or a
Italy and Quito Ecuador, French in thousand years ago.
Venice and German in Rome. In fact the If someone asks you to sing then sing!:
only Step outside your comfort
place people absolutely know that I am zone, try to speak the language, if
American is in Canada. It is fun to play people are singing join in.
along and see where it takes you. Smiles translate: If in doubt smile,
Food can be part of your adventure: You they mean the same thing in every
will find that pretty food is language. Chances are you will be
not always good and ugly food is not rewarded with a smile in return.
always bad. It is not the wine that is No amount of reading books, watching TV
important it is the new and old friends or listening to music can replace the
that you share it with that is experience of getting up off your couch
important. and going to see it all for yourself.
You can be happier if you strike out on You will never look at the world in the
your own: If you are traveling same way again.Travel author Jackie
with a group you do not need to do Willey enjoys discovering fun places to
everything your companions do. Some visit that many tourists miss. Subscribe
people to her blog mailing list at Amore
have an amazing capacity for art Travel Guides and Discover Walking
museums, others prefer churches and still for more free information.




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