Traveling as a Way of Life

Have you ever noticed how traveling seems to change people? Sometimes it's obvious -- for example, in Japan you can often tell the girls who've lived abroad. They're more confident, and they have a different way of carrying themselves.

Similarly, you can sometimes tell when people haven't traveled at all. Here I don't mean just not physically, but mentally as well -- people who are stuck in their own village or town. Many people who've never left home are well read and well informed on the world. Others... aren't.

Exposure to other cultures and ways of life changes you -- usually for the better. You have a stronger sense of the world around you, a better idea of who you are and what you believe. Travel really is a way of life -- a way of opening your mind and eyes to the world in all its darkness and light.

Keep traveling!