It’s my wish that all travelers experience a trip that transcends from a simple itinerary to something so much more. I hope that all women who pack their bags to take on a trip of their dreams are shown more than what they expect. For travel, in its purest form, may seem like a list of “things to do and see”… but the best type of trip reveals lessons and beauty in unexpected ways.
Travel transcends in unplanned ways. Our explorations go deeper than tourist sites and museums simply when we give us room to be still. To make time to be lost, to be quiet and slow. It happens in unscheduled afternoons, lost in local markets. It happens in long, meaningful chats with other travelers – trading stories and favorite memories. Travel goes beyond an itinerary when we least expect, when we give ourselves a moment to breathe.
Travel transcends when we extend ourselves. It happens when we interject a dinner conversation, when we introduce ourselves to the cafe owner. It happens when we accept invitations by locals, when we ask for their personal recommendations. Travel goes deeper when we make ourselves available and open for connection, for friendship and understanding.
To have a half hour of one’s own to get lost, to explore without a plan – heaven. To wake up early and see the morning creep into the still cafes before the buzz of the working people. These moments (and the connections made) amount to a transcendent experience… so much more than a trip.
![#DTBehindTheLens @rayywanders 🇭🇷 #dametraveler Dear World, thank you. I am grateful for my adventures had, and all that will come. With time, with patience and with motivation to learn more of your secrets, your history and your breadth of age. There is so little I’ve seen of you, and yet I feel like I’ve accumulated such staggering chapters of reverie and romance and glittering, passing, yet momentous memories. To walk down the same dust roads as ancient gods, to breathe the same air as conquerers and those who have been conquered. It’s a great big conundrum. Time passes, nature adapts, humans pass… and you are here evermore (or so I hope). How can I be here for just a blip of a moment in time? How can I soak in all the history you’ve enveloped? 🖊 @roamandgolightly [more on #DTBlog] link in bio #dametravelercroatia](http://scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/c3a7b83c2415753009f439ab48d72e2c/5DA22315/t51.2885-15/sh0.08/e35/c0.169.1349.1349a/s640x640/64890562_300884414189713_5894903968744579520_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com "#DTBehindTheLens @rayywanders 🇭🇷 #dametraveler Dear World, thank you. I am grateful for my adventures had, and all that will come. With time, with patience and with motivation to learn more of your secrets, your history and your breadth of age. There is so little I’ve seen of you, and yet I feel like I’ve accumulated such staggering chapters of reverie and romance and glittering, passing, yet momentous memories. To walk down the same dust roads as ancient gods, to breathe the same air as conquerers and those who have been conquered. It’s a great big conundrum. Time passes, nature adapts, humans pass… and you are here evermore (or so I hope). How can I be here for just a blip of a moment in time? How can I soak in all the history you’ve enveloped? 🖊 @roamandgolightly [more on #DTBlog] link in bio #dametravelercroatia")
