Freerice.com. Omniglot. Litro Magazine Short Fiction. © pedrosimoes7 If you’ve ever slung a pack on your back and headed off to see the world, likelihood is you’ve kept a travel diary. And you’re not alone. Check out a beach bar in Ko Phi Phi or a hostel roof garden in Berlin and you’re guaranteed to see… the scribblers.
Hunched over a notebook with a look of intense concentration and scratching away with breathless energy, these are backpackers who, before this, hadn’t written anything for years other than a Christmas card. Going abroad, it seems, not only opens your mind; it unleashes your muse. The question is, why? The Mundane Becomes Magical One of the great joys of traveling overseas is the opportunity to experience new and wondrous things: grand canyons, leaning towers, great pyramids. During my first spring in Finland, I was walking down the street when I came across an old couple staring upwards with big smiles on their faces. . © Alexander Savin Passion Power © terrydu Opportunity Knocks © Unlisted Sightings The Power of Imagination.