don't travel to go somewhere, travel to go

When you travel, you are just you. 

I love how Emily Doong explains her view on traveling. Traveling to her is not just about going across the Golden Gate Bridge or tasting a fried cricket on you way to the Great Wall of China or even experiencing the thrill of attending the Tour De France. It is about taking a step back and taking of break from all the obligations and responsibilities of the world today. Now, some people would disagree saying that the only reason they travel is to go across the Golden Gate Bridge or to taste fried crickets on their way to the Great Wall of China or to even attend the Tour De France. I believe that everyone travels for a different reason because everyone has a different view or opinion on traveling and that is okay. Though, taking a trip from all the hectic responsibilities in life and being able to relax and order a five star meal from your bedroom every day and never even leaving the hotel room sounds like a pretty sweet deal to me, I would enjoy going out into the world and seeing all of its glorious and majestic qualities one day. When you travel, you can just be you. You don't have to be the perfect daughter or the most popular kid in school, you can just be yourself. There is so much pressure in the world today to have the latest outfits with the best hair and the hottest reputation but when you are out in the world where no one even know you, you have the freedom to just be yourself. My advice to anyone who is reading this is to just be you and don't care what people think because in 10 or even 30 years, no one is really going to remember the boots that you wore freshmen year. You do not have to leave the country to be yourself, even though it might be easier. Just be you. 

Doong, Emily. "Why Do People Travel?" Quora. N.p., 2 Sept. 2013. Web. 07 Dec. 2014.

safe or spontaneous?

There are two ways to travel. Planning ahead or simply not planning ahead. 

I personally have always wanted to just be able to go to the airport, walk up to the plane ticket counter, and say, "whatever the next flight may be, put me on it." There are many things that we have to take into consideration as Alex Liivet has shown us. He had eight main points that he makes in this article. Before reading this article, I was full-fledge, gung-ho, one-hundred percent, all for this spectacular idea where you can just be spontaneous and just walk up out of the blue to that counter and be ready for whatever life has to throw at you wherever you go. After reading this, I would have to say that it does not seem as accelerating anymore which I know is bad to say but it is the truth. It talks about vaccinations and how you do not want to go to some place and attract some terrible disease. The thing with vaccinations is that you need to have planned going to the airport and it is not as "out of the blue" as it could be. Also, vacations are expensive and some of them take weeks or months or more than one shot over a period of time to be activated. Also, visas and money. Money would be a big issue for some because taking spontaneous trips wherever is not free though how much we travellers wish it would be. I am rethinking everything and really taking everything into consideration. Of course it is still a dream of mine to be able to do something excited and out of my comfort zone but now I am more prepared where as if I had gone through with my dream before reading this eye-opening article, I probably would be, short story, stuck and broke. You can still be the one that person who takes the next flight to wherever, but you should envy the people who take the next flight wherever and when they come back home, all they can say is how much of a good time it was. 

Liivet, Alex. "How to Turn Up at the Airport and Take the Next Flight Out." Indianajo.com. WordPress, 15 Mar. 2013. Web. 16 Nov. 2014.

traveling on a budget...no problem

Traveling on a budget is not as hard as it seems when you add a little bit of effort. The difference between try and triumph is a little bit of umph.

I personally agreed with most of the idea portrayed in the wikiHow article. One of the things that I had an issue with would be step 5 which states that not eating out is a good idea to save money and that an appropriate and more cost cautious alternative would be to bring your own food from home that could be heated up quickly and without stress. Normally not eating out and instead choosing to eat easy microwaveable foods such as ramen noodles or mac-n-cheese would be something that I would agree with but when you are out of your comfort zone visiting a place that do not usually go to whether it be a different state or a different continent, I personally would like to enduldge in the culture and have the traditional mean eaten there. Though a large percent of a family's income goes towards eating out, you know that you wouldn't want to go to Paris and just eat microwave dinner the entire trip. Depending on how long you are staying, one or two nights of cheap dinner in the hotel room from home would not be bad but now the entire trip. The one thing that I accommodated the most would be step 2 which states that you don't have to stay at a five star hotel because you won't be there most of the day. I know that when my family and I travel, the only reason that we ever go to the hotel room is to sleep or if we forgot bug spray or something of the sort. I have had my share of crappy hotel rooms believe me but wherever we were, it didn't bother me as much as you would think because I couldn't stop smiling about everything that my family and I had done all day. The pleasure of traveling does not have to be something that cleans out your wallet on the first day. Travelling is supposed to put a smile on your face while you are "oo-ing" and "ah-ing". Lately, traveling has lost that effect but you can get it back with only a few easy steps. Trust me, it will change the way you think about traveling the world and you will get that smile back. 

"How to Travel on a Budget." : 6 Steps (with Pictures). WikiHow, n.d. Web. 02 Nov. 2014.

why travel?

There are plenty of reasons why people should travel the world. You just have to find the reason for you. 

The article that I have cited for you down below is an article that I found very interesting and truthful. Statistics show that people who travel actually view life more like an opportunity that you have been given to change the world and to make something out of your being whether than people who don't travel and see the world as a place that could be lonely and wasteful. The article had 17 main reasons why travelling is a fantastic idea for people to live there life whether it is out on the open road or on a sailboat or even just taking a hike that just might happen to be full of God's marvellous creations. The first thing that it states is that it is easier than people think. Lots of people don't travel because they think that they don't have the time or the money or they might get a disease or just plain and simple, they don't think that they can do something with there life because they think that are useless. Well to those people, you can do it. You can do anything if you just put your mind to it and prove to your family, your friends, or even you that you can do it. The rest of the article just tells what you get from travelling like learning new languages or being more cultured which is al true but like I said, there are lots of reasons to travel, you just have to find the on that works for you. 

"17 Reasons Why Around the World Travel Is Good For You." AirTreks. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Oct. 2014.

travel while you are young

   You should travel while you are young but when you make 
excuses, traveling can get held on pause so you shouldn't wait.

   I believe that this article is the truth about how traveling 
is not just for tourists who love riding in taxis across the 
world and looking at all of the wonderful things that it has to 
offer, but that is also a lesson to us about how not everything 
is the same as how we live or lives. Jeff Goins stated that 
there are three main reasons to travel in your life. The first 
reason is so that you can live an adventure. Adventure to me is 
where you truly live your life instead of just living a routine: 
wake up, go to work, come home, sleep. The second reason was to 
encounter compassion which is true but also it will open your 
eyes to how the rest of the world lives which ties into the 
third reason which is to become cultured. I live in the United 
States of America and I am writing this blog on a computer while 
I watching television sitting of my couch. Not everyone has 
the privilege to take advantage of such things that we take 
advantage of every single day of our lives. The next time that 
you are at a crossing point in your life and you don't know what 
to do but you have always wanted to travel the world, do it! do 
not hold back, live your life to the fullest, and be free!
Here is a link to the blog that I have been talking about this whole time. 
http://goinswriter.com/travel-young/

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