Transformative Travel
Butterflies transformative journey from caterpillar is like a colorful ballet.
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
— Maya Angelou
Transformative travel is a great way to self-reflect and self-discover . The outer journey helps the inner you and bring some amazing changes to one’s life.
Travel offers one of the most transformative opportunities one can ever experience. There is not one person alive who has not been changed in the slightest of ways from a trip. Transformative travel can be any simple journey that you take to gain an insightful experience and helps you in growing as an individual. You may have never thought so deeply, but traveling to new lands can bring some powerful changes to you and your life.
This page shares some of the most poignant transformative experiences that have resulted from a trip.
Explore, be inspired and enjoy!
World Footprints will journey inside the life of musician/actor Frank Stallone, we’ll also preview a film festival just for travelers and we’ll talk to the founder of the G.I. Film Festival.
Our book club reading today, The Long Ride, is the story of a team of people who in 1989 traveled coast to coast on horseback to raise awareness about the plight of the world’s rainforests—an issue that was not on the radar of most people at that time. It started in Los Angeles and ended 2963 miles away in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland. A challenge of endurance, a statement of commitment to raising awareness about the plight of the Rainforest, The Long Ride tells of the extraordinary passion and perseverance of Lucian Spataro and his team, as he rode on horseback from coast to coast. In his second book about this historic cross-country journey, Spataro offers an honest, inspiring, comical and beautiful fusion between travel-log, advocacy and photo journal. Told with wit and eloquence, the story moves from the beaches and crowded streets of Los Angeles, across Death Valley and the [...]
This broadcast is a favorite legacy show we produced under our old name Travel'n On before re-branding as WORLD FOOTPRINTS. Adventure travel has an immense transformative power and we have Don Mankin, who firmly believes in this.
