Laughing over a steaming cup of apple tea, sitting on a colorful patterned rug watching hot air balloons speckled across the sky in Turkey. Surfing the foaming waves of the Galapagos, swimming with turtles bigger than your body, heart pounding, eyes sparkling. The flavor and scent of oregano and marinara (or whatever they cook with) as you sample authentic Italian cuisine. Cobblestone roads and floppy sunny sunflower heads draped over the fields of the French countryside.

It could be you.

So why is it not? I think there are four main roadblocks that keep people from traveling:

MONEY

SAFETY

FEAR

MINDSET

ALONE

These are all very valid reasons. If you don’t have the money, you literally can’t. If you believe you can’t, you literally won’t. Fear is crippling in all aspects of life, yet overcomeable. I don’t want you trapsing off to get kidnapped, and I also for most of my life could relate to the excruciating desire to not do things alone.

But we can do this. Together. Let me show you how, one thought and one step along the way.

Each of these barriers we can break down, and you can live the life of your dreams.

Maybe you’re not that interested in travel. Here are some thoughts of why I love to travel, and why I believe it is actually an ethical and moral obligation, especially for people from the United States.

I love travel. I think it is one of the most beautiful things we can do for ourselves and the world. Travel is a mindset; it is the curiosity to explore and learn and experience beauty and grace in our lives. To realize our world and what we know is not everything. That the magic lies in the unknown, that some of the most breathtaking parts of life are yet to be discovered…

So let’s get started.

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