Travel and privilege

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

I've been blogging about our recent Mediterranean Cruise lately, and I wanted to end that series with a note about privilege.

Overseas travel is expensive, and most people in the world don't have the wherewithal to be able to do it even once in their lives, let alone every few years. So being able to travel - especially out of country - is a hallmark of privilege, and one of which I'm acutely aware.

I had been to over fifteen countries before I was thirty years old. Over the next twenty years I visited seven more countries, with plans to expand on that total significantly in the next ten years. By any yardstick, this makes me incredibly privileged, and I want to take a moment to acknowledge that fact, and to be grateful for these opportunities.

The opportunity to see different countries, different cultures, different landscapes, is an amazing one. It changes your worldview, it broadens your mind, and gives you new things to think about. I'm incredibly grateful to have received these opportunities, and to continue to receive them moving forward.


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