Gap Year Experiences

Sipping Jetstreams

Sunday 18 November 2007

Travel keeps you young. It does this by putting you is situations that make you feel like a child again. Magically lost in a moment of discovery. Beautifully confused. It could be the first time you awaken to the 5 AM call to prayer from the local Mosque on Moroccos far Atlantic shore, the first time you feel the weight of the Egyptian sun on your shoulders, the first time you paddle out over the shallow reefs of the Caribbean or the first time you realise that people living in squalor can achieve happiness just as easily as those living in mansions. These are lifes opportunities to shed the hustle of modernity, to join the moment and stop sprinting towards some prefabricated goal. Your heart races. Your metabolism shifts into a lower gear. Everything is new again.

I love this little quote. I wish I could say I wrote it but it is actually from a travel/surf film called "sipping jetstreams". It really makes you feel like getting up and just going. Hope it inspires you to take some time out and hit the world. For me, that time is going to be the 3 months starting on January 29 when our 3 Month Experience kicks off...to say I'm excitited is a huge understatement!

Vince