The Reasons Why We Travel - Read Before You Go

Published: July 16, 2007, 2:30 am

Before I travel, I always get advice that I "have to" do so and so or I "have to" see this or that place. This advice is well-meaning, but people travel for many reasons.If you don't know your reasons for traveling, you're going to end up going places and doing things that you don't really enjoy. Which is a waste of the precious money and time that you've budgeted.Before you go off on a vacation, you should check this list of reasons for why people travel. Then plan what you're going to do around what you really want to do, and not around what you're supposed to do.To learn history, arts, and sciencesBooks cannot substitute for direct exposure to art, history, and experiments with real items. Seeing an item up close concretizes the lesson a thousand-fold. Whether you're studying the sculptures and paintings of a national gallery, studying a building's design, learning the history of a castle in a guided tour, or taking samples of the Earth's core, there is no substitute for a hand's

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