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Travel Changes Your World — Stories from Millennial Travelers
“When you’re traveling on your own, you don’t know what’s going to happen. All you have is yourself to count on and you’re the one who has to figure things out. You put yourself to the test and challenge yourself and when things work out you go ‘oh shit, go me, I can do this.’”
Note from author: this interview took place right before COVID-19 started to turn the world upside down. I hope this piece can serve as a reminder of what waits for us when things draw closer to normal.
Travel has become more accessible today than it ever has been in the past. With a few taps of your fingers, Google Flights can present you with the cheapest tickets going anywhere in the world.
Your email is full of travel promotions. Your feed is full of outrageously beautiful photography calling for you to take an adventure. Your head is full of dreams.
But how does one bridge the chasm between the dreamy imagery filling Instagram and the reality of buying a plane ticket and doing that awfully exciting and yet oh-so-elusive thing, traveling the planet?
