English reading and writing assignment

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Professor Amy Schacht

USEM 101

October 19, 2015

Travel

In “Why I Travel” by Molly Sprayregen the view on traveling is that it is not about simply experiencing another culture, but about experiencing something new about oneself. When traveling it is a time to learn and try new things; it is about grasping the full idea on how little we all really know about the world we live in. Traveling teaches people how each and every person has a lot to offer others, and it helps people appreciate home and differentiate between what is important and what is not. A benefit would be on how Molly states how traveling helps you form a gut instinct on who you can trust, even if it was learned after trusting the wrong people along the way which was a cost to traveling. Another important point Molly made was on how anything that is worth doing in life tends to be accompanied by pain, whether it is physical or emotional. On another note, she also stated how it is from that pain, that we get a sense of joy.

Then, in the second article about Deep Travel, it is on an interview with Tony Hiss. He states how Deep Travel is a state of mind in which you channel the feeling you get from traveling and use it to broaden our lives. It is a talent in which we are all born with and can easily access. From what I read, Tony is leaning more towards the fact that people do not need to travel to get a feeling of relaxation and so on. He states that reading can evoke a similar state of mind. From what he wrote the benefit would be that there would be no need to really travel anywhere, but a cost would be that you would not be experiencing anything new. Overall, traveling is an exhilarating thing to do, but it can easily be done from home.

Deep Travel

· You can get the same feeling from home.

· Don’t experience, so much as thinking, reading, and remembering.

· A talent.

· A state of mind.

· You can get a feeling of exhilaration from thought and feeling.

“Why I Travel”

· Traveling from place is the best way to get the full experience.

· You learn about yourself, not just culture.

· Something best done, not learned.

· Helps form a gut instinct.

· Helps clear what is really important, and appreciate home.

· Both value traveling.

· Life is simple.

· You learn.

· Teach what we do not know of the world.