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What inspires me to travel?
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What inspires me to travel?

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Wilko van de Kamp
Nov 23, 2016
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So what inspires me to travel?

What I bring home from it. And I don’t mean tacky souvenirs, I mean the experiences that I undergo when I’m in different country. Just being out of my comfort zone, exploring different places, meeting different people. It just opens your mind to different things, different experiences. Travel allows you to bring that feeling home and (almost) be comfortable being uncomfortable.

Too often, I used travel as an escape from a life I didn’t even like in the first place. When travelling, I felt less confined by time, money or location. I could do whatever I wanted, I could spend some extra cash I had saved up, and go wherever I wanted to go. Yet after coming home my stress levels quickly spiked back to where they were before I had left. Instead of tacky souvenirs, I wanted to take that experience of freedom home with me. I became passionate about implementing my traveling lifestyle right at home, reconnect with my passions and live a meaningful life.

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