Travel Budgeting - Is it worth it?
MY INTEREST IN TRAVELLING Is very strong and healthy. How about you? But, due to circumstances, travel has to be on a reasonably tight budget. Not quite miserly, you understand, but getting that way. Do you get the picture?
So I’ve been looking into this subject and many websites offer a great range of info, books as well and it’s a far reaching subject. Just about everyone loves the anticipation and sense of adventure that travel can definitely bring to your horizons. There is nothing like travelling around the world and meeting new people, seeing places you’ve only ever seen on tv or virtual reality.
Other people’s culture seems so exotic and interesting. It tends to grow your understanding and appreciation of other cultures. Makes you realize how much or little you have. Once you’ve seen how others live: their lifestyle, food, family patterns, education and so on. You compare it to your own - it makes you feel privileged.
Many conflicts and misunderstandings could be avoided if people could just get out of their backyard and see places that do things a differently. See how aggressive we have become’ impatient and intolerant, when in fact we have so much.
See how cities were or are planned, more to human scale perhaps than ours and see how the young are looked after. Sometimes not at all, but in many communities they are looked after by their extended family.
While your own budget travel adventures may not be able to bring peacefulness to our sometimes troubled world, it certainly can bring some fun and excitement to your life.As my brother-in-law Vincent says “nobody can afford it, we just do it anyway”. I guess its an individual thing, you make up your own mind, if it’s worth it. I think it is!
