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M AY Charleston, SC
E s c a p e t h e o r di n a r y
It turns out, you can take it with you—and bring it back home again.Your heart and soul long for distant and unfamiliar landscapes, for memories that last a lifetime, for history and the sublime chatter of foreign languages, for experiences that you can’t hold in your hand or give away or sell.When you’re away from home, time slows down.You can step outside of your comfort zone and right back in without judgment. You start thinking globally...travel is an education that you can’t get in school. You’ll meet people who have lived completely different lives that you’ll find fascinating, and vice versa. On the road, strangers become friends, travel buddies, listeners, storytellers, and people we will never forget.You don’t have to have experience to wander the planet, and you can start as small as your own backyard or as big as a three-month sabbatical to study art in Italy. Fall in love in Paris. Get caught in the rain in Amsterdam. Glide through the canals of Venice in a gondola. Spend an entire day in a city where you don’t speak the language getting lost in art museums. Do something that makes you feel uncomfortable until it doesn’t anymore. Give yourself enough time so that you miss being home because, as we all who have wandered know, the best thing about wandering away is coming back home.
Cover Art: Kristen Solecki
“My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.” Diane Arbus