Theme Travel
Planning a trip is often centered on a particular place. You’ve always wanted to see Fiji, Estonia, Chile. There’s something about the culture or the history that draws you to that particular edge of the Earth. You buy your travel books and learn what foods and customs to expect on this point on the map.
However there are other ways to plan a trip. Take theme travel, for instance. People do it all the time and it doesn’t involve elaborate costumes or lady boys.
Theme travel is any type of travel that focuses on what you’re doing, not where you’re doing it. It may or may not be a real expression, but I think it works. Often theme travel takes you to areas of the world you would have otherwise overlooked.
Your (Travel) Moments of Awe
Life at home is frantic. You work, you clean, you forget to buy cereal and wind up eating last night’s fish sticks for breakfast. It isn’t always easy to stop and smell the roses.
But when you travel things are supposed to be different. That’s why you mark the start of vacation time on your calendar and count down to the day when you’ll be able to get away from it all.
Yet sometimes you inadvertently bring your hurried world along with you when you travel. You pack your suitcase with socks and shoes… and a hyper need to see a whole country in three days. You plan your trips around important monuments and the expectation that you’ll return home a little more cultured.
You don’t mean to be in a rush, but it’s hard to break from habit.
Amigos de Guaro and Best Friends Abroad
How do you describe the kind of instantaneous friendships created overseas? There’s something about the foreign air – or the foreign booze – that makes you love or hate the people you meet with a depth normally only acquired after knowing someone a decade. You go from introductions to deepest of secret telling in the time it takes you to climb one exotic volcano. Maybe it’s because you inevitably share such incredible, once-in-a-lifetime experiences with people you meet during your travels. Maybe it’s because you’re free of worries, free of cares, and free to just love or hate with reckless abandon.
Gray Day Travels
A gray day is license to do whatever you want. There’s no pressure to see a million sites, or climb the tallest mountain, or wake up early so as not to miss a second of excitement. While these are the reasons you may travel, a break from your self-imposed expectations to do it all can be an essential part of your trip.
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