I Do Love to Really Travel

But not for why you think, and not on bourgeois all-inclusive American-style resort vacations. Those reasons suck.

Traveling around these foreign places, with these foreign languages and people, it all started to feel like home (after a long while of suffering and misunderstanding). I’d come home every summer and wonder why more people didn’t travel to experience trying something different, to struggle with that voice of internal awareness that happens when you approach travel and new culture as a personal growth experience.

Most people pay to travel outside the United States to find their version of the United States outside the United States. The lush all-inclusive resorts. The gaudy tours. The hand-holding. The touristy bullshit. The self-indulgent orders and demands that make Americans look like spoiled brats abroad.

Try to break bread with these people. Let go of your fears and get to know them. If you are an introvert and don’t like meeting new people, or traveling outside your comfort zone, then travel may be tough for you.

This isn’t easy.

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