It’s harder than ever to travel in crowded airports, tight safe routes, packed with cargo flights, fuel-style tickets and poor exchange rates.
But travel has never been more important.
Despite all the problems, we cannot allow ourselves to live a life that is hindered, sluggish at home. If we want to enjoy life fulfilling, we need to travel. Through traveling, we experience different lifestyles and cultures, different philosophies and theology, different responses to personal, social and economic challenges, and we grow and develop when we engage with new and different people.
Of course, it is possible to seek these goals in ways other than travel. But, in fact, something that experiences the world cannot be repeated. You can read endlessly about other countries, regions and people, but there is no impact in reality.
This is the purpose of overcoming travel problems. While this task may sometimes require a lot of tedious facts to be discussed, the overall goal is important because I can testify from my own life.
If I had never traveled, I would never have witnessed all the shocking ways—some work, some would not work—other cultures responded to their social, urban and personal problems. I will never fully understand the various solutions.
I will never defend the laws against European conservatives to prevent employers from firing long-term employees for unstable reasons. If such a God enjoys God’s rights, I will go through my life. I will never meet an Indonesian lawyer who laughs at the idea of filing a lawsuit with a peer jury. I regard the jury principle as a sacrament.
In other words, my mind’s ability to consider other solutions will remain limited.
If I had never traveled, I would never understand that no matter how exotic they look, they basically share the same desire, and so. I would never talk to an African woman about the theory of child growth in a feces cabin. I will never hear Egyptian workers react to recent movies.
If I had never traveled, I would never feel physically unwell when I read about the oppression or misfortune of the people I encountered on the journey. I will never remember them as companions of humanity, not abstract news. In short, despite all the readings I can do, all the lectures I can hear, it is fundamentally without humble people who subconsciously believe in the constant advantages of their country or tribe.
In short, travel is a life-changing experience, a positive and joyful activity. So, why am I troubled by the current travel situation in the United States? This is because travel is not only hampered by the current economic situation. Travel was also attacked.
It is first attacked through ignorance. It has been trivialized by media directors of color culture and attitudes. Few American newspapers will be seriously concerned about traveling, or keep up with major travel trends, or do anything real to travelers with average income. Almost everybody else sees travel as mere entertainment and covers it in the most rash way. If there is a travel desk, there has never been a wide range of travel or a deeper thought about the meaning of travel. Several of the few impressive newspaper travel editors have been evacuated from employees for financial reasons, and part-time demands that other responsibilities bring together the travel sections of wire service and canning functionality.
Even the more serious newspaper travel department is almost entirely dedicated today to travel facilities that are not affordable by the average American American. A newspaper travel section considers the best travel section and will never announce the opening of another ridiculously expensive boutique hotel.
In defending this choice, its editor claimed that he had to report the news. But he remained silent about the fact that his travel part never reported the real news value of the 300-room hotel in the heart of Paris, and never could not pour into a small, new, new, luxurious 48-room accommodation.
Worse than newspapers are the sleek travel magazines, with all wealth worshipers without exception. Travel Magazine writes in the mid-millionaire celebrity-dazzling young people, about $700 for hotel rooms and $150 for meals. None of them provides real service to thoughtful American travelers anymore.
If travel magazines are cruel, travel TV shows are even worse. With the smaller exceptions, they are hosted by dizzy stars who are excited about familiar attractions and provide real useful facts to possible travelers.
Therefore, the current state of travel media is another reason for this book, besides the world economic issues. So, I’m trying to deal with travel content and travel prices. I have discussed the current barriers to serious travel and the affordable ways to travel. I try to answer questions that almost always come to mind for those who plan to travel.
I hope this book encourages you to continue traveling and enjoy the full rewards of your trip. I hope we will always stop and appreciate the great privilege of traveling. We are the first generation in human history, and we are able to travel to other continents as easily as we once boarded a trolley to nearby towns. This is a precious right we like and we should not waste it by failing to acquire travel skills. Bon Voyage!