The ability to go anywhere in the world is something that many of us probably don't pay much attention to in our day-to-day lives.
If we have a powerful passport like that of the United States, some savings or a credit card, and the ability to do flexible, remote work, we can travel somewhere at a moment’s notice.
But for many people around the world, that is not the case.
So today, we're posing some questions about what it means.
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The Life of Travel
From Morocco to the Galapagos in one week.
With my bags barely unpacked from Morocco, where I spent last week, I'm writing this to you from the Galapagos Islands, where I’ve just arrived.
I’m here to spend 10 days aboard a new ship by National Geographic - Lindblad Expeditions.
In the next six months, I will be traveling to a new country each month:
- June in Morocco
- July in Galapagos
- August in Jamaica
- September in Jordan
- October in Chile
- November in Okinawa with our Going Places group trip
Sometimes it’s easy for me to think that this is normal, but I want to pause here and recognize that it’s not.
Many more people have the freedom and flexibility to travel today, but to go on a trip every month for six months in a row is still an incredible privilege.
The ideas and actions in the season finale are an invitation to open up our hearts, become more aware of realities in places we see, and tread lightly wherever we go.
>> Listen to the season finale here
Featured on the Show
- Read Banksy's Walled Off Hotel opens in Bethlehem (AFAR)
- Check out the Pew Research study on how rates of travel vary across the world
- Learn more about restrictions of movement in Palestine (a report by the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem)
- Learn more about our upcoming trip to Okinawa in November here
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