Because we like to explore new surroundings? To turn left one day, and right the next. Perhaps a wrong turning is never really a wrong turning, as such. It is an opportunity to find a fresh path; to unearth a hidden secret; to discover that haunt only the locals know. It is the café where they nod a greeting to you even if they're busy with another customer ... the coffee shop where you quickly learn the phrase for the drink and snack combination that fuels and inspires your day; it becomes your go-to familiarity in that world of sought-after unfamiliarity. The restaurant with a 'dish of the day' that absolves you from the responsibility of choosing.
Travel fuels curiosity
Travel is curiosity
Travel is the desire to explore; it is a willingness to learn. It forces you to adjust; to overcome; to confront your fears. The unfamiliarity compels you. It makes you thumb through the phrasebook. Travel makes you cross the border, turn the corner, wander down that street, open that door, talk to that stranger.
But travel rewards you; immeasurably.
That fear unlocks frisson. Limits become learnings. Borders become doors into new worlds, limitless landscapes, and glorious moments of serendipity. Travel unlocks those doors, flings them open, pushes you through. Travel opens a storybook of blank pages, sharpens your pencil, and urges you to write your tales.
