Travel as a mindset
Pleased by this pair of recent articles, both about how to bring the experience of travel closer to home.
5 Ways To Travel More With Less at zenhabits suggests looking for nearby adventures, specific ideas traveling frugally (all tactics I can personally recommend as well), and remembering to relax (I’m still working on that one).
Rolf Potts writes at Tim Ferris’s blog about 5 Travel Lessons You Can Use at Home, “key ways in which the lessons you learn on the road can be used to enrich the life you lead when you return home.” These ring deeply true for me, and indeed reminded me that a large part of what I love about travel is that it really enforces living in the moment and stretching outside your comfort zone.
These are good challenges for me for right now.