Trips that Cultivate a New Perspective

Travel & Leisure recently posted an article entitled 15 Life-Changing Trips. It got me to thinking about the places I've been, experiences I've had, people I've met and things I've learned. There are a few trips I would call personally "life changing"..... One being a five-day road trip that Bobby and I took along the California coast from San Francisco to San Diego.... a few pictures, below.

 

  

 

My friends and family know how much I love volunteering, and I've always wanted to tie together both helping the community and seeing the world with a transformative VolunTourism trip. My brother has gone to India a few times, volunteering at Mother Teresa's organization called "Sisters of Charity," and I would love to join him in 2011 if I can swing it. And my little sister and I have talked about spending a weekend helping out in New Orleans. So, a personal goal of mine is to make a volunteering vacation happen in the near future, and I suspect this will be a "life-changing trip."

What are some of your life-changing trips?

Check out the T & L article for some vacation-planning inspiration.

* © passport in my pocket *

Comments

[jen]

Thanks for your sweet comments on my blog, and for inviting me over! I love to live vicariously through others who get to travel. Maybe I'll be able to someday!

I hope you'll visit again!

[CreekHiker]

Thanks for stopping by my blog the other day. I agree, Mabel and Moose could be litter mates!

Mabel is 8 today and we have a special hike planned.

As for life changing trips, I was lucky enough to spend almost four months in Argentina. Living in a foreign country that long really writes on the fabric of your life.

[Amy]

i love this post! i, too, have always wanted to do a volunteering trip..perhaps new orleans or somewhere out of the country. i've also wanted to do the teaching english thing..

i just had the "life-changing" trip conversation with my husband. for me, it was life-changing the first time i went to europe..it opened my eyes to a much bigger world outside of my little bubble. my other life-changing trip was of course my study abroad in spain!