<\/a><\/p>\nAnd here is where I get to the point of my ever-rambling post. If you are\u00a0traveling for likes, followers or bragging rights…you’re doing it wrong. Travel to create stories, to challenge your comfort zone, to learn and to experience.<\/p>\n
Create goals of places. Goals are good. Forever take pride in what you have done and where you have gone, but don’t let your numbers take over your ego.<\/p>\n
Compared to some travelers, I’ve barely gone anywhere. Sometimes I get real crap for that. I’m sorry I haven’t been to over 30 countries, I didn’t realize travel was a competition.<\/em><\/p>\nAll I know is that I have enjoyed where I have gone. That even though my schedule and budget don’t allow me to jet across seas for months at a time, I take every free moment and make it part of my adventure. Travel is not about how far you go or how long you’re gone. It’s about how you spend it and what you learn.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Society constantly pushes us to prove we are better than the competition. We don’t know any better. Today’s post is going to be a semi-rant. Mostly because lately I’ve been coming into contact with a lot of people where travel is the subject and all they do is try and boast about how the places…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wanderlust"],"yoast_head":"\n
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