What we’re about
Our Travel Club is a group of curious, exploratory, and creative travelers. We see travel as a tool for personal growth, an intimate learning experience, an opportunity to express creativity, and a way of establishing personal bonds with fellow travelers and cultures.
We accept all people who are curious about or love travel, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, color, age, political affiliation, ethnicity, or religion. And yes, we welcome you if you are a Democrat, a Republican, an Independent, or any other party; we don't want to hear about it.
The information on the world outside our immediate context comes to us via mass media. This information - stories based on which we think and evaluate the world - are highly biased and often completely wrong. Based on them, we build our mental map of the world. If our knowledge is generic, our map won't be much better. A map that doesn't stem from our personal experience and personal effort but has been semi-digested and handed to us on a silver platter. A map on which medieval sea serpents have been replaced with contemporary spin stories and propaganda.
What we know about the world determines, in significant part, what we feel about it. And what we feel determines what we do. Wrong and partial information leads to a lack of understanding, which in turn leads to the feeling of dissociation and abstraction. If we perceive something as abstract and disconnected from ourselves, we are primarily indifferent and feel no responsibility.
Indifference, ignorance, and insensitivity to the world we live in are not only irresponsible but also dangerous. Travel means getting out of the bubble of individual life, family, and state and attempting to experience the world personally and firsthand. Empty maps in our heads become filled with personal elements, each telling a single story, free from anyone's selfish interests.
The world becomes something personal, something that belongs to us. And the understanding, compassion, and the feeling of responsibility for the whole world becomes not only possible but inevitable.
The group is new, but our experiences aren't. If you haven't traveled but would like to, this would be a great place to start!
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