The last few days I have had the chance to talk to a few people that were contemplating leaving America and doing a some serious traveling.  Giving them advice was easy.  Should I go to Korea? Yes. Should I go to Europe? Yes.  What about Turkey? Yes, Go!

All of the people that I have spoken with were thinking about teaching or working their way across their travels.  People usually have numerous questions about how I got to Korea and how hard they think it is to go to another country and work.  I try to make people realize how easy it is to get a job abroad and how much they will enjoy it.  As they left my apartment, they all were truly excited and ready to do more research about their trips.

I kept trying to put into words what it is like to land in a foreign airport with nothing but an adventure ahead of you……..I had no idea of the financial situation that my advice seekers were in, and Dave Ramsey would probably have scoffed at my carefree attitude.  I still believe that if it is at all possible, everyone should travel abroad at least sometime in their life.  The younger people that were asking me about traveling have a whole lifetime of worrying about bills, houses, and other problems that come up with life in general.  I can honestly say that ever trip I have ever taken has been well worth the money that I have spent, even if I had to work extra to save up for the trip or spend months paying down the debt that I incurred.

I really don’t know when my desire to travel began.  It could have been after reading my grandfather’s National Geographic magazines.  It may have been after I read On the Road by Jack Kerouac or Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson or any number of the Ernest Hemingway’s books that I have read. Whatever the cause of my wanderlust, I can not picture my future without traveling as much as possible.

I travel because I have a never ceasing desire to see as much of the world as possible and quite possibly because I enjoy having great stories to tell about other parts of the world.

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.  ~St. Augustine

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.  I travel for travel’s sake.  The great affair is to move.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.  ~Hilaire Belloc