Why we want you to travel long term
December 22nd, 2009 | 
Author: We’re here to encourage you to travel more. But not necessarily on that weekend to Disneyland or on that short vacation to Paris… but to travel long term. Not that there’s anything wrong with shorter trips or going to those places, it’s just not the kind of journeys we’re mostly interested in here. What we want you to do is to go away for at least 3 months, preferable much longer. And we’re not saying you have to travel around the whole world and visit every thinkable country either… Actually, you don’t even have to go such a great distance, just far enough to be able to feel that you’re away, that you are on a real journey.
When you travel long term, you never can tell where the road will take you. Who will you be when you get back home, (if you choose to go back :-))?
We’re not involved in any airline businesses, and we don’t have an interest in any travel agencies or hotel chains. What we’re interested in is what improves and transforms people lives. Your life. And to us, long term travel is one of the absolute easiest and quickest ways to do this.
If you have been following us for a while, you probably already know this since we’ve been hassling you about it all the time: “How you get the time to travel”, “How you can travel with your kids”, “Why you should go on that long journey with your spouse”….
We’d like to quote a fellow thinker here: Jeffrey Kottler, psychotherapist, author of more than 20 books, and traveler. In his book “Travel that can change your life” he writes:
“It is sheer arrogance to believe that people in my profession have cornered the market on promoting lasting personal change. Bartenders, hairdressers, taxi drivers, even friends, have been known to help people grow as a result of their interactions. I’ve wondered if real travel agents don’t do the best job of all.
Traveling can bring out in you parts of yourself that can’t be accessed any other way. Always looking for more efficient and effective ways to promote personal changes, I realized that most of the constructive growth I’ve undergone in my own life has not come from books, or the classroom, or even therapy, but from traveling – especially the kind of trip that involves not just the search for new experiences in the world, but also the time and inclination to look within”.
So you see, even the “experts” agree with us!
Now that this year is soon coming to an end, why not take that as an excuse to start fantasizing about where you’d want to travel long term? What would you like this next year to be like for you, travel wise? When do you want to leave on that journey of a life time? What do you want to do when you’re away? How will you arrange for the things at home that need to be taken care of: job, school, home, pets…..? What changes in your life and /or lifestyle do you want this transforming trip to lead to?
It may seem like a lot to deal with and your long journey may feel very far away, but believe us, if you make the decision to go for it, give it some attention and take small steps in the right direction continuously, we’re sure that 2010 will be the year when you’ll experience that dream trip of your life for real!
And continue to follow us, We’ll be here to encourage you on your way. To be able to do this even better, we’re planning some changes of this site. We’re working on simplifying a bit, adding some things and taking out other to make it easier to give you support in different ways so you can become a world traveler too.. So hang on and keep your eyes open for what we can do to help you on your journey to your journey!
Posted in Transformative travel | 
Tags: extended travel, Transformative travel, Travel, travel long term
yeah I agree with you because, short term travel does not let you to expore more side seeing, and so you may not be able to get more benefit from what you are spending money on
yeah, also it would be better if you share some best of destination that we would like to travel on.
yeah, it would be great if you could add some travelling tips, so that we may get some more info about it
It has never been our ambition to give travel tips on where to go or what to see. We all have different taste and preferences and besides other websites or bloggers are probably much better at it than we. Or maybe a guide book…
But what we do want is to inspire you to take plenty of time for where ever you choose to go. It will do you lot of good :lol: !
Traveling is really such a nice thing as i know because it gives you relief from your stress and the second thing is that you can learn a lot from traveling. I have seen so many islands and countries so that i think it is an achievement for me. Anyways keep it up and keep continue.
Yes I agree with you because when you’re traveling in a short period of time, you don’t get to see all the beautiful places that place has to offer.
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There are so many beautiful places I would like to visit, as well as fun and exciting ones. But I just don’t have the money and I suspect that is the case for a great many people.