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Gary Arndt: 20 Things I've Learned From Traveling Around the World for Three Years
Okay not on the topic of tech, but I like to travel quite a bit too. Really makes me want to pack up and just walk the land like Caine in Kung Fu
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On March 13, 2007, I handed over the keys to my house, put my possessions in storage and headed out to travel around the world with nothing but a backpack, my laptop and a camera.
Three and a half years and 70 countries later, I've gotten the equivalent of a Ph.D in general knowledge about the people and places of Planet Earth.
1) People are generally good. Many people are afraid of the world beyond their door, yet the vast majority of humans are not thieves, murderers or rapists. They are people just like you and me who are trying to get by, to help their families and go about living their lives. There is no race, religion or nationality that is exempt from this rule. How they go about living their lives might be different, but their general goals are the same.
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Three and a half years and 70 countries later, I've gotten the equivalent of a Ph.D in general knowledge about the people and places of Planet Earth.
1) People are generally good. Many people are afraid of the world beyond their door, yet the vast majority of humans are not thieves, murderers or rapists. They are people just like you and me who are trying to get by, to help their families and go about living their lives. There is no race, religion or nationality that is exempt from this rule. How they go about living their lives might be different, but their general goals are the same.
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A friend of mine was able to take his family on a nine-month tour of the world, where they lived in cities as diverse as Berlin, Johannesburg, Kolkata, Bangkok, Osaka and Auckland. He's still in the process of distilling his impressions down into coherent form, but I get the sense that he's reached the same conclusions as Arndt. How could you not?
The point I resonate with the most is people MUST Travel. You really see how small American is when you travel outside our borders and experience people living differently, under a different set of rules and traditions.