Stacy from Ram­bling Trav­eler just tagged me a few days ago to tell her 5 reas­ons why i travel. I just recently wrote a little post about this topic, but didn’t really elab­or­ate on my reas­ons, so here we go:

1. I love the excite­ment, that’s always in the air when trav­el­ling. I mean, most likely the “big” adven­ture won’t hap­pen, but it just seems pos­sible that someone hands me a map to a secret beach…
2. Life is so simple on the road. I find this strangely com­fort­ing. Everything I own and need, I carry with me in my back­pack. No need for a car, an apart­ment or a tv and no desire to own all that either.
3. Cul­tures other than my own have always fas­cin­ated me; it’s almost like a charm. There’s so many things to see and exper­i­ence and so many dif­fer­ent people to meet out there, I don’t see how I could spend my whole life back home.
4. The only way to exper­i­ence more free­dom than when trav­el­ling is to go skinny dip­ping. When you’re out and about you can do whatever you want. If I’m fed up with a place, I can just leave. Back home this would be a tad more problematic.
5. Vir­tu­ally any­thing, good or bad, funny or sad, could hap­pen to me, when I travel. I like this uncer­tainty a lot. There is a grain of truth in ‘No Risk, No Fun’!

So, there’s my reas­ons. If you read this, Ethan, then I’d like to hear your reas­ons. I’d like to see as well, how you would incor­por­ate this into your story!