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When I say I want to travel, I don't mean I want to stay at resorts and go on tours with tour guides or buy key chains from souvenir shops. I don't want to be a tourist. When I say I want to travel I mean I want to explore another country and become part of it. I want to discover small coffee shops in Germany and Italy and Framce. I want to walk on beaches in Australia and browse the bookstores of England. I want to hike the Great Wall of China and go cliff diving in Hawaii. I want to meet people who are not like me but I can like all the same. I want to take pictures of things and places and people I meet. I want my mind to be in constant awe of life on Earth. I want to see things with new eyes. I want to look at a map and be able to remember how I was transformed by the places I've been to, the things I've seen and then the people I met. I want to come home and realize that I have not come home whole but have left a piece of my heart in each place I've been. This, I think, is what is at the heart of adventure and this is why I plan on making my life a good one.

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