The hankering to travel can be boiled down into three categories: either you are unwell, highly creative, or have too much money than you know what to do with. With each of these truths comes a deep-seated sense of restlessness, or rather, as travel writer Pico Lyer puts it in his 2010 article, “Why We […]
Pico Lyre writes about why people travel. They write many reasons, such as for education, for leisure, for food, etc. Their article expresses the joys of traveling while also placing it in the modern setting. It acknowledges the privilege that many people have to be able to see so many places, and the unfortunate circumstances […]
I find it so interesting that the identities of a foreign country and an individual are so intertwined when it comes to travel, particularly in the way one will ‘find themselves’ in an environment completely distinct from the one they are accustomed to. This is a conversation on fate, it seems, which I often discard […]
Pico Iyer, a travel writing essayist, discusses the reasoning, outcomes, and expectations for travel in an intriguing essay titled “Why We Travel.” This article outlines several different reasons why travelers may explore the unknown, as well as how traveling can change one’s perspective on life or the world. When I first found an interest in […]
“So travel, at heart, is just a quick way to keeping our minds mobile and awake.” – quote from “Why we Travel” by Pico Lyer Travel can be defined in all sorts of ways by all sorts of people (which is one of the beauties of it), but I was touched by this one sentence […]
Maggie Visser I believe in taking every opportunity available to me, especially traveling. From a young age, I developed a “do-what-you-can” mindset. For those who are reading this and wondering what I mean, I’ll explain. My “do-what-you-can” mindset began when I was in elementary school. From birth to the age of 7, I was extremely […]
