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What is travel to you?

What is travel? Is it a feeling? An action? A way of life?

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    Amily shaw 10+

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    Jan 12 2013: Its a way to enjoy aloneness and connection with humanhood.
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    Gail . 50+

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    Jan 12 2013: Travel opened my mind. I highly recommend it.
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    W. Ying 10+

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    Jan 12 2013: Simple!
    (1) Travel is one of our instincts (our ancestors' successful experiences saved in our DNA) for food-habitat seeking.
    It made us survive in ancient times 10,000 years ago.
    (2) Today, travel is only a kind of INVALID happiness.
    It wastes about 90% of our limited resources-energy on the planet.


    (For INVALID happiness, see the 1st article, points 1-3, 14, at https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=D24D89AE8B1E2E0D&id=D24D89AE8B1E2E0D%21283&sc=documents)
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    Kate Blake 50+

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    Jan 12 2013: Having travelled (physically) extensively, including living in NZ and India for years, I can agree that the way to travel is in our own minds.

    Everything is there - we have such vivid imaginations, we distort things until they agree with our projected fantasies and we have no visa, financial or conflict issues to deal with except our own internal ones.

    And lets face it with all the documentaries, you-tube and the internet we can travel, learn and talk to anyone about anything in this world. But we haven't found those aliens yet ...lol

  • greg dahlen 20+

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    Jan 11 2013: A great question. I don't think TED gave your conversation enough time. A slightly famous writer named Ann Patchett said "In the end, the only place you can go anywhere is in your own mind." Of course travel means moving from place to place physically, but it's only really interesting and fun if you are taking an interest in your surroundings, asking questions, being inquisitive.
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