A Search For Freedom: Why travel?

Our Mission Statement

We travel because we found ourselves unsatisfied, the taste of what we were supposed to do had gone sour in our mouths. We wander because we can, because we were no longer comfortable in our comfort zone. We move so that our minds may never turn to stone as we sit and follow orders. We embark because we do not need anything we cannot carry on our backs. We travel to feel the fear of the unknown and the freedom of knowing nothing. We travel to learn, to love, to experience. We Go to taste a little of South America and bite into the unknown.

Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Argentina

Monday, March 30, 2015

Why travel?

Why travel? I awoke one day in the small beach town of Montinita and I asked myself why I was traveling. And a few things came to me as I sat in a hammock under a large Palm tree

Because nothing will ever go according to plan. travel to dance with locals to local music, because you wish to know how other people move. travel to taste food you've never heard of and drink juice from fruit You never knew existed. Travel because you might get lost and scared, you might find yourself alone in the dark, but you'll be forced to discover why you fear the things you do.

Why travel?
Because when you move you can see clearly. You will be forced to see the person starring back at you from the still puddle on the ground for who she really is. Travel because getting drunk in another language is a great way to learn. Travel because, if you never go, you will never know the options. To live a life in only one place is to order vanilla ice cream every time.

Mostly, travel because what you go looking for is most surely not out there but something else, something better, really is waiting for you outside your comfort zone.

So I sat in a hammock, in a beautiful place in Ecuador, surrounded by beautiful Argentinian people speaking the most beautiful language in the world and I remembered. I remembered all the reasons I had decided to go, and i laughed because what I left looking for and what I have found are wildly different. And that, that is why we travel.