Well, today is my last day in Bariloche now. At 7pm tonight I board a bus and start heading back to my new home in Corrientes. A 20hr bus ride to Buenos Aires with a 4 hour stop-over there and another 11hr bus ride to reach Corrientes. No more travels for now. But this is only a pause, for I will never stop travelling now. I love it too much to actually stop.
It is a funny thing then, that I was probably one of the biggest advocates against travel before I started to actually travel myself. It was not that I had never been anywhere, but just that I had never really travelled and until I did it never made any sense to me. Of course now it does.
You see, now that I have started travelling, I do not want to stop. There is something in the mystic air of being in a new culture and new place with new discoveries and things to see. To be an unknown person in an unknown land - a discoverer, an explorer, an adventurer.
But it is not just this that makes travelling so worth the effort and cost. To me, it is the inexplicable changes that happen in your head and heart as you travel. Meeting other people helps to show you more of who you really are. It reveals exactly where you came from. Opens your eyes to what your culture really is like. Gives you more of an understanding of your roots.
Travel is one of those things that unless you actually do it, you will never understand. Some people love it and others seem to hate it. But very few people seem to return home unchanged if they have really travelled. I have been changed through my travels. Ideas expanded, understandings challenged, concepts replaced. I have also changed to become one of the biggest advocates for travel. It really is that worthwhile.
So if you are thinking about it. Stop. And just do it.