Back Door Travel Philosophy

From Rick Steves Europe Through the Back Door

"Travel, like the world, is a series of hills and valleys. Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something's not to your liking, change your liking.
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"fanatically positive and militantly optimistic"... I can do that. :-)

Travel imparts new vigor to the mind

“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

Seneca was a Roman philosopher and advisor to Nero. He's been around a while and it's nice to know this philosophy is not new. I so firmly believe it!

Thank you, Mother and Daddy!

"Travel is the death of prejudice."
~Samuel Clemens

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I'm pretty sure that wasn't the main motivation, but my parents felt like travel was one of the most important things we could do as a family and they instilled a love of travel in both my sister and me. We've both been to all 50 states (several times for most of them). Together we've been to six European countries and on other journeys, we've both been to others (she more than I, but I'll catch up some day). Our parents have been to even more than that and just returned from a 32-day cruise down the Asian coast. There's so much to learn when you travel, but obviously, there's so much more to gain.