19 Tips for Taking the Trip of a Lifetime
| October 12, 2016
Listen to your inner child
Think back. Is there a country, city or experience that, as far back as you can remember, has always intrigued you? For me, there certainly was.
Even in high school, when friends would ask what I would do if ever I won a million dollars, I always answered that I’d move to the south of France. No idea why. But some twenty years later, I am literally writing this from a hotel room on the Cote d’Azure. I still can’t tell you why my teenaged self was so drawn to the region, but I can tell you he was absolutely right.
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