Travelling is strange. Obviously I grew up in the modern world, but it still amazes me that we can travel so far and so fast today. A day's journey takes us hundreds and hundreds of miles from home. Spending the summer far from home made me stop to think about how amazing that is. Because of our ability to travel far and fast, I had the opportunity to become familiar with a patch of earth I had never set foot on before and likely will not set foot on again. Even more bewildering than my presence hundreds of miles from home was the presence of many international friends who were
thousands of miles from their homes!
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| From Stony Man Mountain, Shenandoah NP |
I love to travel and I love meeting people from all over the world. It allows me to create a culture all my own by piecing together my learning from the diverse places and people I have access to. But progress always means loss. What does this incredible ability to travel, to diversify my experience in general, cost me? What do I lose by gaining the world, so to speak?
