"Travel can make you a poet. Travel can be spiritual. By venturing far from home and looking back you assumed you were self- evident and god-given. It rearranges your cultural furniture. By traveling you learn about yourself.
But without capturing your thoughts on paper, the lessons of traveling are like shooting stars you just missed. Your journey is a facet of your broader life. Journaling thoughtfully relates your travel experiences to your life in general. If your life is a canvas, traveling brings new color."
Rick Steves obviously spends his life dedicated to finding new places around the world and discovering the new in old ones. This article I read once, quoting him, stuck with me as fascinating and bright. It is true- travel changes you. It opens your mind to new cultures and new sights that the mind alone can't even create. How can you not be effected by something so radical and changing- the obvious that each country has something different to offer. Each place- each city, each park, each country, each person, each continent- all bring something new to the table and paints an even grander picture of the whole thing. Travel is an open door that will forever change you the moment you take the chance to step through it.
