"We travel initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves ...
We travel to open our hearts and our eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate ...
We travel, in essence, to become young fools again — to slow time down and be taken in, and fall in love once more ... "
Pico Iyer
To travel is to feel profoundly alive — discovering new places, new tastes, new people — enhancing the sensation of stretching a lifetime into a thousand different days.
Time slows down as we open our self to a new experience. Pico Iyer explains, "Abroad is the place where we stay up late, follow impulse and find ourselves as wide open as when we are in love."
Traveling is like writing, fitting in as much passion into the brief sentences of life. The thrill of beginning a journey, the life-enhancing value of experiences, the satisfaction of coming home, inspired by all that we have seen, lengthen our life by deepening its intensity.
When I spend months at home doing business as usual, I forget to see beneath the surface of familiar things, making months seem like one long day.
Atop an elephant wading through the swamps of Botswana, I feel the swaying rhythm of its lumbering gait; listen to the piercing cries of birds blended with the sensual grunts of bathing hippos; smell the wet, green odor of weeds; see poetic silhouettes of mishapen baobab trees against a flaming sky.
Thoreau said, "You have to find out for yourself. Take the leap. Go as far as you can. Try staying out of touch. Become a stranger in a strange land. Acquire humility. Learn the language. Listen to what people are saying."
I hope you will take time to disconnect from the trappings of everyday existence to live passionately, immerse yourself in new experiences and in doing so, recover your Self for yourself!
Let the journey begin....
Angelica Berrie
Chairman
Global Nomad
