Indie travelers value private transformation over social status and bragging rights.
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Private transformation over social status and bragging rights.
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Indie travelers value private transformation over social status and bragging rights.
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Couldn’t be more true! I know a few too many people who seem to live for upstaging others on how much they’ve roughed it or, conversely, how they scored the most hotel suites or business-class upgrades… but the truly transformative nature of travel is less about notches in one’s belt than about the inner journey that accompanies and is driven by the outer journey. For me, that’s what indie travel is all about.
I’m with you David. The bits that I have injoyed the most with regard to travel, are the personal transformations. In our BootsnAll’s original code of conduct, we had a rule… “So we can tell our mates we did it” will be grounds of dismissal from BootsnAll.
Anytime I hear a friend or acquaintance say, “I’ve done” such and such country, or “When I did…”, I automatically tune out. Anyone who “does” a country didn’t really do anything at all-