Andrew Dunkle Asks Why You Should Travel Abroad?

Why do you travel?

The best way for me to explain why I travel so much is to simply state: it is an escape from the ordinary and a search for something extraordinary. If you are on this site and reading this, I am going to make a fair assumption that you too are searching for something beyond your own horizons.

But why do it? What makes seeing the Pyramids of Giza or enduring a 16 hour flight to Australia so satisfying? Why not stay close to home and visit that local museum you have never been to? First, you may be surprised to know that some people actually do this and feel no desire at all to leave the country and return with pictures proving that they had 'been there.' As a matter of fact, I envy these lucky people who have already found that the best things in life are right in front of them. Not so for me..

There is clear evidence that I am a product of my environment. My mother first took me to the Bahamas when I was still enjoying the good life on the chord and I have hardly stopped since. At the age of 10, my world changed from the mountains of Colorado to the beaches of Australia where my family happily lived for almost 6 years. I would only return for a couple years before leaving again, this time for Italy then onto Taiwan. I am now back in San Francisco, which for me at least is a new and exciting place to explore, but I don't plan on stopping. You see, for me, traveling is a way of life, a craving that only a fresh passport stamp seems to fix. I want to see and experience the world now during the peak of my vitality and not when I am 70 and need a cane to climb the Eiffel Tower.

So my Question of the Blog is: why do you travel abroad?