"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -- Mark Twain
I love to travel - the sites, sounds and smells of a distant land are as exciting in their unfamiliarity as they are reassuring in their reminder that I'm out experiencing the world. Traveling has been a passion of mine since I was a kid, however at that time my traveling was done through the words and pictures in National Geographic magazines from my bedroom. When I was 18, painfully shy and incredibly naive, those pictures came alive when l trekked around Europe for two weeks. That adventure only heightened my desire to see the world.
Today my goal to see as much as possible has shifted to understanding as much as I can through immersion. I want to learn about a culture from within and therefore I seek out opportunities which allow me to live in other countries. I've been fortunate to have lived in Spain and Japan and look forward to a new adventure in Korea. These experiences have not only given me incredible memories but also different perspectives on the world at large as well as my own country and culture. Anthropologist Margaret Mead has observed that "[a]s the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own."
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Today my goal to see as much as possible has shifted to understanding as much as I can through immersion. I want to learn about a culture from within and therefore I seek out opportunities which allow me to live in other countries. I've been fortunate to have lived in Spain and Japan and look forward to a new adventure in Korea. These experiences have not only given me incredible memories but also different perspectives on the world at large as well as my own country and culture. Anthropologist Margaret Mead has observed that "[a]s the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own."
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Where I've been and where I hope to go ...
Red - where I've lived
Blue - where I've visited
Green - where I hope to visit
Blue - where I've visited
Green - where I hope to visit
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and
narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these
accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot
be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's
lifetime." - Mark Twain
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