Pauline Frommer, daughter of Frommer guidebook founder, shares her thoughts on why we should travel. This is by far the best piece of news I’ve read all week as she addresses the topics I’ve had on my mind for quite some time.
While the article targets American audience, it has the same value to everyone else.
You said in an interview last year that you and your father believe we wouldn’t be electing the leaders we do if we were a better-traveled people. Would you expand on that?
I think if we were a better-traveled people we would have more faith in diplomacy. We would realize that people all around the world have the same fundamental needs and issues.
We all want to keep our families safe and happy. We all want to have enough food and drinkable water. We live in an era where there’s a lot of news coverage, where the fanatics get the majority of it, especially in situations where we have clashing interests with other countries. What’s gotten lost is our common humanity in the discourse. When you travel, you recognize that.
The phrase ‘smart people trave’ might be a little condescending since it can be interpreted as ‘stupid people don’t travel’. On the contrary, I have met many people who have never traveled outside their countries and live in the same city where they were born. Stupid? No. Intelligent? Hell yeah. At the same time, I can’t count how many times I’ve met stupid people during my traveling. ‘Smart’ in the context of the article means you become smarter than the person you were the year before.
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My name is Cindy, also rhymes with travel junkie. A friend said I was probably a gipsy in my previous life. One of my many secret missions in life is to convert you to run off every once in awhile.
