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Traveling has changed my life and opened my eyes to the beauty and resilience that exists in the world. I believe travel can and should be more than just getting drunk on a beach or ticking a list of popular sites off a list.

Travel should be about making connections with both the places you visit and the people who live in those places. It should open your eyes to the varied and wonderful people who live in our huge, beautiful world. It should also be about seeing those people as people, not just background props for our own adventures.

I believe that as tourists from rich countries, whether we’re vacationing for a long weekend or backpacking for a year, should learn the history of the places we’re visiting and to try and understand the ways colonialism and capitalist exploitation have affected the people there. We also have a responsibility to travel in a way that supports local communities rather than exploiting them. I plan to write in more detail about this one of these days.