Welcome to not only a new year, but a new decade as well! What changes await in this new decade? One way to guarantee positive change is to get a passport and travel the world because it leads to positive changes in our lives. One of those changes is improving our mood as we leave our day to day worries behind and immerse ourselves in exploring and discovering. For instance, chasing a passion for waterfalls and doing what it takes to not only get to a new one, but finding a park ranger who can get you to the bottom …
International Travel
International travel, aided with a passport, is on the rise – amounting to 2% of the global gross domestic product in 2018. This is six percent more than 2017 and though the final figures are not in for 2019 yet, it is expected to be even higher. But why and where are the travelers headed to? Looking back in 1950, there were 25 million international tourists. This rose to 166 million in 1970 and 435 million in 1990 and then 1.4 billion traveling over the holidays last year. The growth of budget airlines has made international travel easier for many …
An Inspiration to Explore
The upcoming holiday of Columbus Day has fallen out of favor with parts of the United States; however, the early explorers were some of the first world travelers. And in a sense, Columbus had a passport of sorts – the sponsorship of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. While it is true that the Vikings arrived and settled before Columbus, and the Native Americans arrived here even earlier, it was his re-discovery of the Americas, if you would, that truly ignited the expansion of the known world, gave us the land we enjoy today, and possibly even our desire to explore …
