The Journey is Up 2 Me

What does it take to be considered a great traveler? Travel is an escape from reality right? You pay, pack, and journey into another world where people who eat, stay, and live everyday already. Arriving into their world seems so interesting to ponder over. It never ceases to amaze me how similar or how different people can be once you enter their world even across bodies of water. This is the primary component of being a great traveler... the ability of leaving your world and entering someone’s else’s without a trace . Of course to journey one must leave their chaotic state of being only to enter the temporary sanctuary of peace we call vacation. This is a time without cell phones, needy kids, scheduled agenda's and time off of work! All for what? Besides returning to triple the emails and the blinking red light on my phone, it is to gain an experience or new memories that you can take with you on your days to come. It is a visited place that is forever in your mind for those hectic days that you can escape too. I find that I often leave my memories at my vacation site never to revisit them in times of need and it is only when I am dusting the photo album or when I am looking for the next cute face book profile pic that I run across some distant pictures from a random trip I took. I want to be better at mentally putting my vacations to better use or better yet to have some memories at my disposal vs. memories that have already been disposed. I want to learn while on vacation even if it’s about who I am while not on vacation sort of like a reflection period. Who is to say I can't come back sharper, or refined?