Home and Travel: Why You Can’t Appreciate One Without the Other
Out there — on the road — was where life happened, full of exciting adventures, fascinating people, and endless possibilities. It baffled me.
Out there — on the road — was where life happened, full of exciting adventures, fascinating people, and endless possibilities. It baffled me.
My first trip overseas — a vacation to Costa Rica — made me fall in love with travel. For all the reasons mentioned above, I realized why “vacations” were so romanticized in work culture. It just felt that way to a young, restless soul for whom adulthood felt eons away.
I had come to understand what someone who is just setting out with romantic notions about travel couldn’t: You can burn out. After a while in one place, we yearn to break up the monotony of our daily routine. My first years on the road would never have been so amazing if I weren’t trying to break free from a quarter-century of routine.
