Why we travel

This article was very deep. The author explains how traveling should be a much more profound and cultural experience than it is for most people. What I got from this writer is that when we travel we are not only supposed to indulge ourselves with the culture that we are traveling too, but to also bring our culture with us. It seems that the basic point of this writing is to get the reader to understand that sometimes going to less fortunate places and experiencing the unknown of cultures, it will only help us to become a better person. It was interesting how he compares traveling to being a child. It is true that when I travel I am much more open to change, and having a open mind lets me learn and experience more. Like a child does, I am open to the unknown and don't seem to really care. When I go to Mexico I always find myself wanting to learn the culture more and more, and not really caring that I do not understand the language all the time. I think if more people viewed traveling as a "love affair" as the author describes, we would probably get so much more out of our vacations. He obviously views traveling as a way to completely learn and feel the atomosphere of which you are in, to see everything even the bad and less fortunate things. This article I believe was more a reading about how to open up your mind and heart to the world around us. While he does speak of physical travel, I think he is more talking about a metephore of traveling outside our normal lives to experience more and help others to experience more as well.

He compares traveling to a love affair several times. Interesting comparison mostly because he is right that when we love good we are so open to learning everything we can about that person. We long to find more out, if we felt this way when we traveled we would see everything for what it is with emotion not just with our eyes. I think the writer wants us to use our felling more than our sight, he seems to think this is the only way to live your life, I think I agree.