Why should you take a round-the-world trip? Why should you travel to lots of different places, for a long period of time? What’s the point? Why not just take a regular old couple of weeks’ vacation?
Why? To make a long story short, here’s why:
- Because you want to.
- And because it’s good for you.
To make a short story a touch longer, here’s the thing: if you didn’t have some interest in round-the-world travel, you wouldn’t be reading this page. You wouldn’t have clicked whatever link brought you to this site. Whether you’re pondering, dreaming or already planning, you’re interested. But it is a bit of a way from mere interest, to putting on your pack and heading for that first destination.
What will you get out of a round-the-world trip that makes it good for you? Here’s just a few things:
- Learn about other people, and yourself.
- Try something new. Or just do it again, because the first time ’round was so amazing.
- Gain experience and knowledge.
- Meet all the friends you never knew you had.
- Sense of freedom. No schedules except your own and more open to unplanned activities.
- The challenge, and the adventure. This isn’t a static holiday at a resort or a visit to one city. This ain’t your dad’s trip.
- Challenge yourself.
- Chance to see multiple countries in one trip, at your own pace.
- Make a dream come true – after all, lots of people dream about traveling like this, but few ever make it happen.
- Tea, coffee, kava, coca, red-eye… try a new morning pick-me-up.
- Have cool stories to tell your friends back home.
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- Eat different food.
- Drink different beer (or whatever your preferred poison is).
- Do something that most people will never do, but will wish they had done.
- Had a big change in your life? Take some time for yourself to travel, to do something new, to help your perspective on things.
- Adventure.
- Educate yourself.
- So you can tell your mates you did it.
- Make a break from the rat race.
- Prove to yourself that you can do it – because you can, you know.
- See how varied and different the world really is – and yet how similar all of us people in it really are.
- Make new memories to smile and laugh about, even years later, down new and other roads.
- For the fun of it.
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Really, any reason is a good reason. Most people have their own, a unique reason to take a round-the-world trip. What’s yours?