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Travel these days is trying. Airlines bleed passengers dry for luggage, lines to security snake through to infinity,
and once you do get on onboard, you have to take out another mortgage just to buy a bag of stale peanuts.

Why then do you travel anyway, and why to another land?

For voyaging lets us gain a new way of looking at things, is the reason.

The truth is, although the Internet offers us an open vista on the world, we all live very limited lives. We see our own challenges, we believe in the way we solve our problems and we are hard pressed to understand why anyone would do things differently.

Here’s a case in point. Where I live, in Puerto Rico, we can put out as much garbage for the trash collectors as we want. We don’t have to sort it into categories. Plus, if we want to get rid of heavy debris – TV’s, washers, mysterious one-ton metal contraptions that look like they might be outboard motors or pieces from an alien space ship – we just call the municipality, jot down a number, and lug the stuff to the sidewalk.

It’s very easy to dispose of trash, so we don’t consider it a problem.

My relative has a contrasting experience with garbage disposal. She is from Switzerland, where everything is ordered and sidewalks are swept clean. I have seen when I travel there over my life that for people not from Puerto Rico, trash requires consideration. This relative, with all the other Swiss people, has to organize her garbage into reusable stuff and not reusable stuff. The country limits the quanitty of trash citizens can dispose of and will charge law breakers. Of course, in my country, Big Brother has rules to ensure proper garbage removal, but no one will maintain the laws.

So it is that when I visit my relation’s place, I stuggled to counteract my upbringing and divided up all of my garbage. My biweek travel to this foreign nation gave me a love for my liberty to throw away a ton of stuff whenver I like. And, I frequently try to put my aluminum cans in recycle bins because I visited the land of the Swiss, because people there know that it is normal to separate.

This cousin of mine, in her turn, has conceived a much more large view of the world because she was able to visit Puerto Rico. We can stuff a whole shed load of garbage and put it onto the walkway, but it is much more difficult to get around to in Puerto Rico and this has given my cousing a greater apreciation for patience. She always has trains that run in a timely fashion. Here, of course, not everyone has access to great public transportaition. We sit in many hours of traffic per day.

A voyage, a short voyage, to a distant land will demonstrate that the way you live is not the only way and you will begin to learn to find the good things that you get at home.

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