19 Tips for Taking the Trip of a Lifetime
| October 12, 2016
Do it for yourself
Don’t travel to impress others, to fit in, to foster jealousy, to please your partner or for any other reason than you absolutely want to.
That goes for the trip itself but also for every aspect of that trip. You want to visit Paris but couldn’t care less about steel constructs with no purpose? Go ahead, skip the Eiffel Tower. You’ve always wanted to see the Amazon but don’t care much for ruins? Go straight to Iquitos, then, and don’t waste a minute in Cusco.
This is your trip, your life, and your trip of a lifetime. No one else’s. Live it.
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