Reflecting on the Benefits of Travel

Looking back on my past trips, I realize that with traveling comes change, learning, and growth.

Reflecting on this, I asked myself, ” What have I learned from my trips”?

From my time in Japan-

Most noteworthy, I experienced hospitality in it’s purest form. Magnanimous expressions of kindness. Nearly everyone that I met demonstrated it in their own way and to a different degree. It was as if each person that I had the privilege of meeting painted a brushstroke and collectively presented a portrait of hospitality. To me…Indelible ink on an impressionable mind.

I learned the value of making time for those important to you. Put yourself out there. Make yourself available and don’t take for granted the opportunities that you have to spend time together, to make memories together.

With travel, there is the opportunity to learn something new about yourself and leave something old behind… The ability to grow… The option to bring home a broadened  perspective.

Mark Twain observed-

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”