Travel

I want to see new things and new places. I want to explore. Even if it’s just in my state, I want to explore. I want to find out everything I can and experience new things. I haven’t travelled much these last few years. I’m so busy, so caught up in my routine, that I never really go anywhere. I want to change that. Parks, landmarks, friends I haven’t seen in a long time or don’t see regularly, famous places, unique places, I want to see them all. I want to go to beautiful and odd places. I want to find things I’ve never found and see oddities I never even considered.

The world isn’t that big a place. It’s big, sure, but it’s not so big you can’t experience all of it for yourself eventually. A four- or five-hour drive isn’t that bad and a night stay at a hotel or a campground isn’t that expensive. See the world! I’m going to. Family and friends aren’t that far away. New things, unique places, new experiences, all just a drive away.

We get so caught up in our own little patch we forget there’s a whole world of new experiences out there just waiting for us. It’s easy to immerse yourself in your routine, in the day-to-day grind of work/eat/sleep. There’s a reason it’s called the daily grind. It wears away at your heart and your soul. It has to be done to make the money to enjoy the grand experiences but it’s not the entirety of life. I’d rather die in debt and live a great life than die rich and have nothing to show for it.

Speaking of riches… You don’t have to spend a lot of money to have a good time. People tend to think they have to spend and spend to enjoy themselves. Sure, there are lots of great things worth spending money on, but they’re not the only things. There are parks and the wonder of nature, famous landmarks and the feeling of standing in important points in history, the graves of famous people, visiting and wandering around famous cities, and visiting friends you haven’t seen in a while for the sheer joy of it. Travel isn’t just about going to wildly expensive exotic locales and paying boatloads of money for expensive experiences. Sometimes it’s just about going somewhere new and different and a little exciting and seeing what happens. It’s about the new, the different. It’s about invigorating your life by injecting the world straight into your veins. The world is wonderful. I’m going to go experience it. You should too.