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crazydiamond · 03-03-2004, 05:31 AM

i agree with everyone here!

i travel for many reasons, but mainly because I like to challenge myself. i have grown up in a very sheltered environment...went to the same school for all of highschool, knew the same people, never lived anywhere else....everyone around me here is very close-minded and they live in a very small world where everything revolves around them!! I think that if you don't travel and see the world, you get too involved in yourself and start to get boxed in. I know that living here I sometimes feel like I am suffocating!!!! Also, I am a very shy person and travelling forces me to talk to people. Communication I think is the most powerful tool we have in this world and I like to keep my mind open and talk to lots of people so that I can understand many different perspectives. Well i've said enough hehe sorry for rambling on...just had my morning coffee

**Carisia** · 03-03-2004, 05:33 AM

No rambling at all cd! Everything you said is so true!

clemsam · 03-03-2004, 06:16 AM

Turns out that my trip to Europe is going to be a solo one, and my family and a ton of my friends can't believe I'm still planning on going alone. It's just something that I have to do-I like to challenge myself, and am pretty independant, so I know I can handle it. While I'm about to graduate college, I will probably learn more from my trip abroad then I ever learned my entire time in college, or high school for that matter. Traveling exposes you to new people, places, cultures, and languages, among other things. Like many other people, I don't want to look back on my life and think about all the places that I "could" have or "should" have visited. I have the rest of my life to work a 9-5 job, so I'm definetly not looking to rush into that anytime soon! Traveling helps you learn more about yourself, and at 21 years old, I think I have alot more to learn. I think my quote also applies to this post

faith · 03-03-2004, 11:40 AM

I've had some good experiences, some bad experiences, and a boring year and I need some excitement. I'm tired of sitting around waiting for my life to change. It's time to do smething new and totally differnet and if that means going across the world, then that's it. There's some stuff that I need to get over and I think getting away and experiencing new people and places will help tremendously.

**Chibiminako** · 03-03-2004, 12:17 PM

I just want to.

I've always been too scared to go anywhere alone, to tell the truth, Im terrified now thinking about how this trip to Canada will turn out, almost talked myself out of going several times...but...Im 24 years old now, dangit, Ive already let too much time pass me by, I should start seeing things and going places. I gotta start gathering stories to tell my grandchildren

Besides that, though, I am hoping that traveling will help me grow and become the person that I really am.

Family and friends...*laugh* My mother has problems letting me cross the street alone

you could imagine her reaction when I told her I was going to Canada by myself!

She is STILL trying to talk me out of it.

phlipfudge23 · 03-03-2004, 12:38 PM

My mum barely wants me to travel to England with my dad! And this is the 4th or 5th time! I think mothers just have a tendancy to think of all the bad things that *might* happen. I know my mom spent years trying to drill that way of thinking into my head.

Posie · 03-03-2004, 02:19 PM

I get all that too...

I'm a naturally shy person, and I want to be put in the situation (like cd) where I HAVE to talk to people. I'm an only child too and I think my mum's having problems letting go, even though I moved out at the age of 17... bless her!

Still excited though... eee eee eee!

butternut punkin · 03-03-2004, 08:45 PM

mmmm, interesting, we all seem to be looking for something or trying to find something about ourselves. I know some people are coming to AUS soonish, I live in brisbane and it is my life but to someone traveling through it can mean so much more than just a place to live. not really sure what I am trying to say, maby it is ok to love home and different places and why can we not be these people that we are away from home at home? Why do we have to go away to find out who we are? Make sence to anyone or just a uni students random thursday afternoon blabbles.

**Ozpacka** · 03-07-2004, 10:42 PM

Ive been thinking lately about why im going on this trip, different things pop into my head from time to time. And i spend long nights talking to myself about it.

The more i think about it, the more it becomes clear. I just need to satisfy my need for adventure, my thirst for knowledge and my curiosity about how the rest of the world lives. Stay tuned for more...

Mysterica · 03-12-2004, 05:37 PM

i love the feeling of being able to disappear..i love steeping into a city where no one knows anything about me..i'm an unfamiliar face....seeing things that people will only see through books...the only time i'm truly happy is when i have my backpack strapped to my back...it's almost as if when i'm lost in a city i have found my self..all my binders and locker at school are plaster with photos of my first trip..if you stare long enough you can almost take your self back there...this probably makes not sense ...that's what happends when i babble

**ashpunk** · 03-12-2004, 05:43 PM

Adventure has always been a major driving force in my life... growing up I swore I was going to be a female james bond

or indiana jones...

I can blame it all on my dad... he's the one who let me watch those movies... and he's the one who took me traveling when I was little... its his fault I'm like this