Get Lost! No! Like Literally go get LOST while traveling!

Most people don’t like to be lost.

They don’t like feeling out of the loop, or like they’ve missed something. Most of all, they don’t like feeling vulnerable in a strange place. But, the more I’ve traveled, the more I’ve come to realize that, sometimes, getting lost is okay. In fact, getting lost can often be better than finding your way on the first try.

Getting lost helps you hone your problem-solving skills.

Finding yourself lost in a foreign country or strange city can be scary at first. But, instead of looking at it as a potentially devastating situation, try looking at it as an opportunity to hone skills that are important to every traveler.

Get out a map, and learn how to read it. Get over your pig-headedness and ask someone for directions. Look at being lost as an opportunity to test your problem-solving skills. You’ll not only figure out how to get back on the right track, but doing so on your own will leave you feeling like you accomplished something.

Going through this a few times will leave you more prepared in the future.

Getting lost can lead to unexpected adventures.

Being lost doesn’t automatically mean things must come to a halt. If you’re on foot and find yourself lost, take a stroll around the nearby area and see what you might find. If you’re lost in a car, perhaps just follow the road and see where it takes you.

As long as you’re not on a strict schedule, getting lost can often lead to discovering places or things that you might have totally missed otherwise. After all, they can’t put EVERYTHING in the guide book. View being lost as an opportunity, and not as a setback. Maybe that wrong turn will lead you on an unexpected adventure. It never hurts to explore.

Getting lost can help you learn how to relax and go with the travel flow.

Many people approach travel with the assumption that everything will go according to plan that schedules will be adhered to and timeframes will be met. If you’re one of these people, you are kidding yourself.

Travel is unpredictable. Places and people are constantly changing. And, when you’re traveling, chances are that things WILL go wrong. .Accepting that you may get lost along the way will help you to accept that travel isn’t always perfect, and doesn’t always go the way you want it to, or the way you expected it to.

What Language do you think in??

This thought has crossed my mind in English but I have the ability to think it in Spanish. Being bilingual I began to ask myself how language effects my cognitive thinking and more importantly how does language effect other cultures around the world. Scientist agree that the left temporal lobe of the brain is used to comprehend and translate audio strings into vocabulary formatted words in the mind ( Im sure its way for complex then just that). Or could it be that I think of pictures and smells then translate that into some type of language. The question I then asked myself is "why is it easier for kids to understand a new language? Children actually a smaller memory capacity so they end up focusing on smaller chunks. They pay more attention to the most important parts of a sentence, effectively filtering out details that might overwhelm an adult. This simpler approach might be one of the things that give kids an advantage. Adults have much harder time learning a new language because they have hard-wired neural connections in the brain and when a new language needs to be learned they have to rewire connections they have already been accustomed to using for so many years. This rewiring of language connections causes for a harder time in grassing vocabulary in a new language. I would have to say this would relate to travel in that one must be culturally sensitive and attempt to learn at least some aspect of a foreign countries language to better understand the environment they are entering.

http://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-blogs/why-americans-dont-travel-overseas/

How travel shaped Che Guevara

Che’s journey  is chronicled in The Motorcycle Diaries, which  directed by Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles

Before he became the Revolutionary icon known as "Che" Ernesto Guevara de la Serna was an Argentine medical student tired of school and itching to see the world. On January 4, 1952, the 23-year-old Guevara and his friend Alberto Granada jumped on an old motorcycle and embarked on an four month trip which then turned into an eight-month journey across South America. He went from Argentina, through Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Panama and actually up to Miami before returning. The two men encountered increasing poverty and injustice on their journey across the continent. The experiences of distinctive societies, histories, politics and cultures he encountered forever shaped his personal ideologies. Historians and biographers now agree that the experience had a profound impact on Guevara, who would later become one of the most famous guerilla leaders ever. 

"His political and social awakening has very much to do with this face-to-face contact with poverty, exploitation, illness, and suffering," said Carlos M. Vilas, a history professor at the Universidad Nacional de Lanús in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

This video depicts a scene in the movie where, Che with the reality of struggles and social injustice facing many South Americans at the time. In this scene a couple motivation to travel is to seek refuge from political persecution and are in great need of work to survive. When asked by the couple his reason for travel he simply tells them " we are traveling to travel". This scene becomes a sort of epiphany and realization that there are bigger things going on in the world around them.

The urge to travel. Where does the motivation behind wanting to travel come from? Is it an instinctual or primitive action that has been embedded into our minds to migrate or adapt to new environments. Are some people predestined by genetics to be more eager to up and leave?

 Homebody (noun)
A person who likes to stay at home, esp. one who is perceived as unadventurous.

Why is is that some people prefer to be homebodies? They are not necessarily against traveling but seek to only stay in the environment in which they are familiar with. While others for some apparent reason feel the need and desire to travel freely.

Through this blog I will try to unravel but no limited to the physiological reasons behind the motivation of traveling in the human mind. While examine the physiological and behavioral affects traveling has on a person through their own personal journey!

Finding yourself through travel.

 

 “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac