humanity
If nothing else, travel opens your eyes to the colorful quilt that is humankind.
Why We Travel. Top Story - June 2018.
My Story At nineteen years old I left the country for the first time — destination: Brazil. I was heading off to the Amazon River to travel on a boat for a month with a group of friends hoping to change the world. On the flight home, I knew that the one thing that had been drastically changed wasn't the world at all; it was me.
By Savannah McKinley8 years ago in Wander
Back to Roots...
I grew up on a farm in a small rural town of Muskoka. It was 200 acres of field and forest with limitless opportunities for new places to explore. My childhood was full of snowmobiling, tobogganing, skiing, biking, hiking, swimming, boating, and the hateful daily task of rounding up cows from the neighbors. There was no shortage of outdoor activities and chores. We didn't have phones and tablets those days and we were okay with that. It made us who we are today. Quite often my mother could be heard yelling for me to come in for dinner but I often ignored as I had better things to do. It was much more important to climb a tree or explore the barns to retrieve some animal or treasure.
By Annabella Stoyke8 years ago in Wander
Big Sur Backtracking
In April of 2017, the situation had become untenable. I don’t know what I meant by the “situation,” exactly, but I think it was more akin to life and where it was eluding me. And the truth is, I’d been overdue for ocean therapy for some time. “You’re a Persing,” my father said once, “That’s what we do. We go, and it helps.”
By Jaz Persing8 years ago in Wander
Small Experiences Teach Life Changing Lessons
Imagine for a second that you were raised in a country that claims itself as “Center of the world, heart of the universe.” You’d think that cultural understanding is common, wouldn’t you? Well, I was, yet that concept seems utopic to me because every day I get the unpleasant chance to read xenophobic comments of people who grew up next to me. People who, thanks to social media, see the foreigners as threats in their country. And I realize that it not only happens in the small piece of land where I grew up; it happens all over the world every single day.
By Montse Miranda8 years ago in Wander
The Hardest Thing About Travelling
Planning your dream trip is exciting. Where will you go? What will you see? How long will you stay in each place? Who might you meet? What modes of transport will you use? There are so many questions and limitless possibilities. Will you quit your job or can you take an extended sabbatical leave? Will you set up a business and work whilst you move around? Have you saved up and plan on just enjoying yourself? All this planning, and yet the hardest thing about travelling is returning home!
By Ruth Gibson8 years ago in Wander
Why We Travel
A couple of months ago, we were having a chat about our world tour with one of our couch surfing hosts in Turin and when I mentioned we'd only been on the road for two months, he laughed and said “Wow, only two months?! But that's a lot already!” That's when it hit me. For the most of us occidental folks, we've never been on the road for two months because, well, we're way too comfy on our sofas scrolling through Facebook and Instagram being envious of all those people who are doing something meaningful with their life.
By Melissa Lhune8 years ago in Wander
The Handmade Bracelets
Until this day I’m trying to figure out where my head was when I almost made 4 people miss an international flight over some handmade bracelets. It was the last morning my family and I were in Cancun before it was time to go back home. During one of our first days there, I came across someone making these custom, handmade bracelets for about five USD. Unfortunately, at that exact time, I only had one made, but I wanted more, and both my family and I knew that before we left that was the one thing I wanted to go back and buy.
By Walking To Greatness8 years ago in Wander
