Travel

Traveling is life. One of our greatest privileges and burdens today is the opportunity and need that exists to travel. Never has the world been so open and connected, yet so much more needs to be done.

And never has there ever been such a need for travel. To feel something real, unexpected, and joyous. The civic duty of a global citizen to see, touch, smell, hear, taste, learn, feel, play, dance, and love something outside themselves. To share our perspectives and lived experiences with others and to feel and understand theirs.

To leap for mankind in the case of Neil Armstrong or to sail into the unknown with Christopher Columbus. We can all be brave and have our own traveling adventure that captures the imagination of our friends and ourselves because that’s what traveling means to me. It means courage. The lesson with Christopher is that often we travel for a public mission and discover something completely different and probably even more valuable and it doesn’t have to be a new continent. It can be within. Do you think every mission in life is a success because the primary objectives were met? This is almost never the case as much as social narrative would have us believe. These objectives are successes because of constant reframing of the problem statement and all that is explored and discovered along the way.

I’m not sure about almost anything in life but I’m quite sure that spontaneous and objective-less traveling makes us better humans and we should all do it. The greatest discoveries of humankind have always required a lot of courage, a lot of love, a lot of luck, and a lot of accidents.

For my Greenland trip, the story will be told from a linear narration perspective but the pictures will be sorted into two categories: Wonderful scenery and beautiful people.