I don’t think I could ever choose one reason for which I enjoy traveling. For me, the experience of visiting a place I’ve never been before combines a whole slew of things into one. It’s being exposed to a new culture, interacting with the locals, indulging in and exploring the cuisine, and even just walking around, taking in everything from the scenery to the scents and sounds of that area.
A change of pace is always something that’s nice to have, especially living life as a college student. Doing the same things, seeing the same people, and just going about the daily grind, trying to get from one week to the next, can be daunting and often times exhausting, nevertheless to realize that you really haven’t done anything special at all.
When you travel it’s completely different. You see something new every day. Your senses are often on overload, but in a good way, not the way you might feel when you’re on public transportation listening to people scream over each other, sitting next to someone who may or may not have showered within the last 72 hours.
No. Travel is a completely unique experience. It’s one of those things that can’t be categorized. You will never be able to say, I am going here and I’m going to do this, this, and this. Because then it becomes tourism not travel. If you don’t allow yourself any time to explore and take everything in and discover new and exciting things, then you are not allowing yourself to travel. You are simply planning out your days and nights, just as you have to in your normal life and you’re constricting yourself to stay on a straight and narrow path. And even if you’re in a new place, this can get boring.
The thing I love most about traveling is taking some time to myself to just think and soak everything in. If I’m somewhere tropical or on a beach somewhere, you can bet that at some point I will wander down the long stretches of soft sand to explore in the pools and under the rocks, searching for the most interesting and majestic sea creatures I can find.
If I’m somewhere like Sicily, a place with such a deep food culture, you can bet just the same that I will be investing a lot of time into exploring the various cuisines, just as I do on the ocean shore, in search of the most delicious, simple, and incredible tastes and smells that the island has to offer.
I think that if you go into a trip with too much of a plan, then things can easily be ruined. I like to go into a travel experience with an open mind, knowing that I’m going to enjoy most, the moments when I can just relax and take things in my own way.
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