I love to travel.  Who doesn’t, right?  I love it so much that I want to make it my job and a huge part of my everyday life.  And what’s more, I want to help and inspire others to seek meaningful travel experiences.  But what is travel anyway? 

I think that foremost it is a state of being. It is a place I reach where I’m my best, where I am truly alive and ready to experience the extraordinary. It is like falling in love with a place and with life itself.  When I travel, everything is new – and so am I.  I feel new because I can look at my life from a different perspective and I can reflect on what I appreciate and what I don’t appreciate. And I can see what I want to change.  Beyond that, traveling has provided me with the most exciting experiences of my life.

What a gift travel is.  And it is something that everyone can do.

I discovered travel when I was 18.  My boyfriend at the time invited me to Italy during the summer before college.  I felt like the luckiest girl in the world. (Continue reading…)