100 little things that travel has taught me. Travel has been one of my most valuable teachers.
Rather than sit in a classroom and learn about the world through a someone else’s eyes, I did it through adventures and misadventures, tears and laughter. I know I still have so much to discover, but here are some lessons that sometimes I had to learn the hard way. Some of them I already kinda knew, some I are silly, some are serious, some are obvious, and some are embarrassing. Maybe this collection will help open up new doors in your own life and own travels, and although we will all learn our own lessons, I hope maybe I will help someone avoid some of my mistakes (example: #14). Happy travels! 1. 21. Top 5 Reasons to Travel After Graduation - Why You Should Travel After Graduation. Chances are that your parents didn't travel after school (the majority of US citizens don't have passports), and maybe don't think you need to, either.
And after you graduate from college, it's implied that you'll go straight to work for the rest of your young-enough-to-travel life. UK students, on the other hand, hit the road to Europe running right after finishing secondary school -- it's called a gap year, and means a year of traveling or life before or after college. You should take a gap year, too. Why? A million reasons you'll never regret... here are just five: 1.
School's out for the summer -- for some of you, school is out forever. 2. Some of the best travel discounts around are those given to 12-26 year-olds. 3. Believe it! Top tips for first-time travellers. Big adventure ... backpackers heading off on their travels.
Photo: Alamy With a daughter at the end of her own gap year and a shared credit card nearing meltdown, Michael "Tripologist" Gebicki passes on to graduates a few lessons from foreign roads. Your last year of high school now fading in the rear-vision mirror, the nightmare wait for results finished, soggy school lunches, uniforms - never again. Maybe you're thinking of spreading your wings and heading offshore, and what's not to like about a few months or even a whole year on the road? But travelling well is a skill and it doesn't necessarily come packaged in your DNA. Off on a scooter ride without a helmet. Money Advertisement The ATM is your best friend. One card that many professional travellers swear by is the 28 Degrees MasterCard, which has no annual fees, no reload fees and no international transaction fees.
Taking a risky river plunge. Yet another option is the prepaid foreign currency card. Travel insurance Health Safety. You Should Travel Anywhere and Everywhere After College Graduation. I graduated from college less than three weeks ago, closing the book on yet another chapter of my life.
Two days later I was on a plane to Bangkok with nothing but a suitcase and a vague sense of what the next nine months would offer. Yet I am comfortable with my decision to momentarily put my life on hold, to keep at bay the demands of a conventional lifestyle for just a while longer because my life, to date, has been nothing but conventional. Arguably, the same can be said for many of the nearly 3.5 million young Americans that graduated this spring because the plan was clear from an early age: go to school, get into college, graduate, secure a good job, work, start a family, work some more and then retire. It is, after all, the American dream. However, while in the throes of pursuing that prefabricated dream, I found myself questioning the familiar platitudes of how one’s life should seemingly go. Be reassured, my desire to come to Asia was hardly capricious.
Stuart Ahlum. Why you should travel young - Converge. As I write this, I’m flying.
It’s an incredible concept: to be suspended in the air, moving at two hundred miles an hour — while I read a magazine. Amazing, isn’t it? I woke up at three a.m. this morning. Long before the sun rose, thirty people loaded up three conversion vans and drove two hours to the San Juan airport. Our trip was finished. As I sit, waiting for the flight attendant to bring my ginger ale, I’m left wondering why I travel at all. I was leading a missions trip in Puerto Rico. “Do you think I should go to graduate school or move to Africa?”