Traveling is a great way to explore the world around you and experience many new things. Traveling creates opportunities to learn about all different cultures across the globe and helps to decrease stress. Traveling draws you away from your everyday life in your hometown and immerses you in a new place with a change of routine, scenery, and maybe even culture. Traveling is a great way to deepen connections with your family and friends and maybe even meet new people.
Georgia Murphy, a junior at Middle Creek, loves to travel. Georgia states, “Traveling has made me more adventurous and it’s made me love trying new things and foods.” Georgia loves that traveling helps her to become closer with her family and friends by enjoying new experiences together.
According to CNBC, seeing new things around the world helps you to learn so much, which increases our happiness by making the brain more active. Learning from travel is much more captivating than just seeing photos or reading about destinations on the internet. When you are in the new location, you can immerse yourself into the experience and culture for the whole extent of your trip. Traveling makes you more creative and accepting of new ideas. “Researchers from Washington State University surveyed 500 Taiwanese adults and found that those who traveled several times a year at least 75 miles from home were 7% happier than those who rarely traveled.”
With spring break coming up now would be a great time to plan a trip! Great places to visit in NC are Asheville, Charlotte, or one of North Carolina’s many beaches. If you want to see more of the US, some great places are New York City, California, Colorado, Florida, and more. Those four states give options for beaches, cities, mountains, and amusement parks. If you want to hop on a plane and see the world, you could travel to Paris, London, Rome, an island in the Caribbean, or really anywhere.
Overall, traveling is a great way to explore the world, increase your happiness, and create memories that will last a lifetime.