Its The Journey Not The Destination

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Some of my fondest childhood memories come from travel. • Biting into a juicy peach plucked from a tree in the Okanagan Valley. Swimming in the clear, warm waters of the Indian Ocean. Racing my little brother up the Eiffel Tower. • Because travel is a form of magic. • It opens the mind. Makes you stronger and happier. Teaches you about the world and yourself. Brings you closer to other people. • Travel creates Proustian memories that last a lifetime. • I wrote It's The Journey, Not The Destination to introduce children to the joys of traveling slowly. To inspire them to see the world as a giant playground to explore and savour at a gentle pace. • Often travel is ruined by the four horsemen of the modern apocalypse: Stress. Impatience. Distraction. Busyness. • Instead of stopping and staring, we speed up, missing the small details and fine grain that make each place thrilling and unique. We visit places without really experiencing them – and then return home more tired than when we left. • Traveling slowly is the opposite of all that. • It means being present, curious and alive to the moment. Plugging into local culture. Treading lightly on the planet. • Traveling slowly lets you experience the world in all its richness and wonder. • That's why the 40 voyages in It's The Journey are all based on slower forms of transport: bike, boat, train, your own two feet. When you stop dashing to your destination, getting there becomes part of the adventure. • Like walking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. Or gliding down the Mississippi River in a steamboat. Or cycling round the Baltic Sea en route to regal Riga. • I hope It's The Journey will also show children that the best voyages often happen in your imagination, that you can travel anywhere on a magic carpet of words and pictures. • Even if you never cycle the Silk Road or paddle round the Galápagos Islands, reading about such adventures can drop you right in the middle of them. • Traveling slowly can even ennoble the most humble journey. Starting with your local park or even your own garden. • Because when you travel slowly, when you show up with a calm and curious mind, any journey can be a balm for the soul and a banquet for the senses. • In my own family, we are firm fans of traveling slowly. So many of our best memories are minted while spending time together in new places. • Slow down the pace, and you and your children can do the same. • More info: https://buff.ly/3SmwAeV • PS: In North America, the book is called Slow Adventures.

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