An Ode To Travel

Reflections on living & traveling abroad the last two years

What follows is a transcript of a video I created reflecting on the last two and a half years of travel at the end of 2020. I’ve been living and working as a digital nomad living in several different countries since 2018.

Three years ago my friend said I was heading out on a walkabout. I didn’t know what to expect but I knew I was going to encounter things I couldn’t predict.

The one thing I didn’t realize is that travel has become something different.

Different from what I experienced as a child. It wasn’t something that I was racking up experiences. It was something that I was putting myself in different environments around different people in different places and not knowing what will happen next.

For the last two and a half years I’ve come to a new appreciation of travel and have come to understand that the things we think we want from travel are not the ones that really matter.