The Meaningful Traveler

Tag: danger

  • Gratitude and the slippery slope – Part 2

    Big surprise: I didn’t die on the icy trail to Annette Lake. But I did remember, then forget, then remember again the reason why I came there.

  • The danger of fear

    Too often what holds us back and prevents us from taking the kinds of trips that we know will prove most meaningful are not the big fears about personal safety, but the little fears about how we will be perceived or how we might feel. Moving beyond such fears opens us to a world of discovery we’ll never know otherwise.

  • The most dangerous places on earth

    Traveling to war-torn areas or places of great suffering can be very dangerous but not necessarily for the reasons you think.