Travel Advanture

Travel Advanture

  • Submitted By: ryanwong
  • Date Submitted: 02/08/2009 7:37 PM
  • Category: English
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Travel and Adventure
Life and travel share a very central similarity. That is that, no matter how elaborate or active one is in life or travel, the simplest things will have a much more lasting effect on the person experiencing it. Tanya Shaffer explains this well, by saying that “sometimes a single day can bring a blooming surprise, a simple kindness that open a chink in the brittle shell of you heart and makes you a different person when you go to sleep.” That something can be anything imaginable, and even sometimes things that were never even thought about before, like a monk from China, or a shoe salesman in Hightstown, New Jersey. Tanya Shaffer illustrates an excellent point that, when traveling, meeting a new person and learning about them can be one of the most rewarding endeavors. That point is something I can vouch for as well, when analyzing past trips, namely the most recent into Hightstown, New Jersey.

My family has traveled at great length for years, including several relocations of our home, most often failing to be “good travelers” as have been defined in recent classes and writing exercises. However, despite living in my own shell as Shaffer mentions, there were simple occasions in memory that did warm my heart and leave an impact, though I realized it years later. It is amazing how the things remembered down the road are not the elaborate awards or other bigger, “spectacle” type of events but rather the little things, like being embraced by people when you are new in a town. People who have not experienced being new in a place, let alone many times, have no idea how easy it is to sink down into that “shell,” furthermore making it thicker and thicker as days go on. Then, in the blink of an eye, when those first few people start to make efforts to make you comfortable and get to know you, that shell starts to break down and, referencing Shaffer’s statement, “it makes you a different person when you go to sleep – more tender, less...

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