20 Things World Travelers Wish They'd Known Sooner
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✨ Let's dive into a journey of self-discovery through travel, as seasoned explorers share their most important travel lessons. Unearth personal growth through travel stories and insights, with invaluable lessons from world explorers. These stories are not just about destinations; they're about the profound learning from travel experiences that shape our lives. Tune in to uncover the top travel lessons that promise to change the way you see the world and yourself.
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00:00 - Introduction to Travel Lessons
1:00 - Self-discovery through travel
2:47 - A control freak’s revelation
3:17 - Misadventures as life’s greatest tales
3:50 - Go with the flow
4:12 - Dealing with unpredictable situations
4:46 - What do you bring?
5:54 - Tripped Travel Gear
7:47 - Trusting locals but with a twist
8:07 - Universal magic words
8:43 - Tourist areas vs. Local culture
9:08 - Run every decision using this filter
9:58 - We are all the same
10:18 - Just another shade of right
12:20 - Embracing differences without judgment
13:47 - The power of privilege
14:06 - Perspective shift
14:44 - A catalyst
15:14 - Can travel pave the way for world peace?
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While travelling in the Dominican Republic with an NGO, we were given this wonderful travel advice by the head of the local organization, Carlos: He told us “your flexibility is your best ability”….we took that to heart and learned the secret to successful travel is the ability to pivot without getting all bent out of shape…that and to take the time to form connections with local people. The first improves your travel experiences and the second changes your life ❤
That's beautiful, Bernadette!
Never pass up on the opportunity to use a sit-down toilet…
Ha ha! Truth.
Right on Nora! 💝 Mark Twain wrote, “Travel is fatal to prejuidce, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
Twain knew where things were at. :-)
US will be a different country if more people travelled outside their bubble.
@@whyme5024 I agree. And I think that could be said of other countries too. Every country, actually.
I was assigned to go to Germany while in the Army and didn't want to go. After 3 years of living there, marrying and being exposed to different countries and cultures I almost stayed permanently. We fear what we do not understand and fear and hate go together. I used to think the US was the best country ever and in every way. I still believe the US is great country of opportunity but now see many great countries and plenty that do things better that we can learn from. Great video with some real insights.
Thank you! And - "We fear what we do not understand and fear and hate go together." - SO well said!
Even without traveling you can experience other peoples lives and cultures by watching their videos on CZcams. I have gained insight on their perspectives and thoughts. Much can be learned by seeing people from all over the world.❤
Great point! Thanks :-)
Travel broadens the mind & strangers are just friends you haven't yet net.
I love this!
I'm late to this video but you saying you were taken care of by strangers made me want to agree and tell you what happened to me.
My family of 5 and 3 dogs lived in Da Nang Vietnam when covid really hit. We are from the USA. We lived in a more "local" area away from the majority of expats and tourists.
I taught ESL but online. Most people didn't know it was online. When the borders closed and the schools shut down, many people panicked but my job was secure. The next day after schools shut down, my landlord called and asked if I needed to skip rent. He was worried about how I'd support my family. The property manager tried to bring us groceries. The store I ordered dog food from randomly showed up and tried to give us a free bag. All because they assumed I'd be out of work with schools being closed. I can't imagine any of that happening in the US.
There was such an outpouring of support and care from everyone in our neighborhood. I'm blessed that we were ok but I am incredibly happy we were in Da Nang at that time. I will be forever grateful for the kindness of everyone we met in Vietnam and how open and welcoming they were to my family and I.
Wow that's a beautiful story - thank you so much for sharing!
I am grateful that wonderful neighbors took me as a child on day trips to other parts of my city. Today there are many that never leave their towns.
True!
There are few experiences to compare with the joy and anticipation of traveling to a new land for the first time. I find that I feel most at home when walking in a foreign city and hearing various languages and dialects spoken all around me. No doubt about it, travel changes you …
I totally agree!
Wow it’s so cool how you were able to gather these insights from your subscribers! I really like the “it’s not right or wrong, it’s just different”.
Right?! Such a great lesson. I’m blessed to have such an active community of amazing travelers.
I am so happy that Nora views travel as more than hotels, logistics and ATM's. I appreciate the lesson of travel, and I have traveled the world for business, NGO and pleasure ... there are brilliant and giving people everywhere, as Nora found out. We live in a world of communications and travel that would be sci-fi just a few decades ago: I can pick up my phone and dial virtually anyone in the world, instantly. You can fly to nearly anywhere on Earth within 24 hours, for typically 2-3 days' ordinary wages, the worst economy seat being abject luxury compared to the past. Yet, no one seems to get along any better. We all have our feelings about corporations, governments and greed making the world a much more difficult place, but "you can only control what you bring" so you leave your legacy with those that you meet.
Thank you for your very thoughtful comment! I do wonder about your observation about nobody seeming to get along any better. I'm not saying you're wrong, but if you're right it does challenge the notion that travel is the key to world peace - which I thought was such an amazing idea.
Some of my favourite travel experiences happened as a result of failed travel plans. Adding extra time in your travel plans when you can reduces stress and makes available opportunities that General do not happen when when your travel plan is too busy.
I totally agree!
Not quite the same thing, but I knit hats for The Mission to Seafarers. They help works on ships from all over the world and as a treat give them hats. I like to think when some of these folks go home and hear "Americans are mean/bad/rude ..." they can say, "a nice little old lady knitted me a hat, so I see kindness."
Aw...that's awesome!
Denise, that’s a beautiful thing to do, and such a kind thought. I thought you might like to know your message touched the heart of a stranger a few thousand miles away.
Travel with your kids, regardless of how young they are. It will make your experience richer because most people actually don’t hate kids and your kid will learn a lot about perspective on the world.
Great lesson / tip / advice!
Travel teaches us so much! Our favorite lesson? Carry-on only is easier than you may think 😉Thank you for sharing, Nora!
Thanks for making some awesome gear that helps carry-on warriors like me! :-)
I like your friend's idea of "Travel being the key to world peace".
I have lived in 5 different countries (I'm now Canadian), and even though generalisations about different cultures might be true, they are merely generalisations.
Human beings are more similar than we are different, and we should not confuse the general with the particular.
Here in Canada, I find that Toronto has more in common with my hometown of Chennai in India, than it does with Ottawa where I live. Toronto and Chennai are both densely-populated cities and that has an effect on the culture.
Interesting comparison! I grew up in Toronto and have a place there; I appreciate that it is the most multi-cultural city in the world. It's amazing!
Thanks for your travel advice. You provide lots of practical, helpful advice. Rick Steves has been preaching for years about the benefits of travel, that travel helps us to know other cultures and learn about people. Happy and safe travels everyone.
Thank you - and happy and safe travels to you as well!
Travel has made me appreciate different ways of doing things. I've incorporated several new habits into my life as I travel. I appreciate things I've taken for granted, like drinking tap water. I've also learned many new things about myself that I will take into the future, such as I need one or two days of not being around people to reset my mental well-being.
Tap water has been a huge one for me!
Great video, Nora!! Thank you! ❤ 😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
"All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not."
Rudyard Kipling
Love this!
All of those are so true. No matter how long you've been traveling, you still learn more and more all the time. That's the joy of traveling! And the last one is something I've told people for many years...if everyone would get out and travel and experience other cultures, meet other people, they would see that what they thought, or what they were told, is different from how things really are. Like she said, when you meet others and see them as people just like you, it becomes very difficult to hate them. It seriously is the key to world peace! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks Jim! Erica's comment was a big part of my inspiration to create this video. Such an important message!
I love this! All these lessons are why I travel. Especially getting out of my comfort zone as a solo traveler. Awesome video Nora!
Thank you so much, Lorelei!
If it’s not a tragedy it’s an adventure!
Left VERY early to the airport and found out we were in the wrong airport in Shanghai. Luckily took a bus to the other port got in line when everyone was boarding.
Yikes! Glad you made it in time.
Beautiful, everyone has the right to live in peace. Where ever we go we are the ones that shape other peoples opinion of the world and of our own country. The generosity in our soul shows everything about ourselves and of our upbringing. Show the smile in YOUR heart.
So very well said! Thank you.
Thank YOU Nora... I was born in Toronto, so of course I have a kind heart.... lol
This was truly a great post. Thank you! It rang so true for me as I think of my solo travel in ‘foreign’ countries. It is such an amazing experience in one’s life to interact with the nationals. Not only that, but the resulting memories become an incredibly enriching memory that is never forgotten. Meeting many wonderful people, of all ages and genders, while traveling, is a precious gift. BTW, this applies equally when we travel within our own country!
Wow - so well said. Thank you!
I'm lucky enough to be binational, bilingual and bicultural and have traveled a decent amount in three continents (well, technically just one country in one of those continents) so I've seen the world through two sets of eyes and perspectives and have always understood that one country and culture's take on things is just that country and culture's and there are many others, some very different, none necessarily better or worse, just different (I believe that some things are objectively worse but no need to get into that here and now). Provincialism is a malady best cured by travel, the further away both geographically and culturally the better. And the longer and more immersive that travel is, the better.
As for travel, I think that if you didn't experience at least one crisis or setback that forced you to adapt and make the most of things, you haven't really traveled. My best travel experiences have involved lots of setbacks and the process of dealing with them made the experience richer and deeper. Of course I don't mean tragic or near-tragic setbacks such as the one that Nora experienced in her horrific accident. I mean things like travel delays, bad weather, getting lost, forgetting to bring an important item, etc. How you deal with these says a lot about you and the kind of travel you like to do in terms of by the book or of a more adventurous sort. And what's the point of traveling if it's not at least a little adventurous?
I remember taking a several weeks train trip through central and eastern Europe shortly after the Berlin wall fell. It was almost a spur of the moment thing that I didn't plan well for, leading me to pack way too many things that slowed me down along the way. I lost my wallet, missed several train connections, got stuck in a rural part of a country where no one spoke English, arrived in several cities late at night with no hotel reservations, took too many overnight trains where I barely slept, and yet it was one of the most enjoyable, rewarding and memorable trips I've ever taken.
I made friends along the way, saw some of the most beautiful and fascinating places on earth, met some really nice people, connected with some family history, and had some really good stories to take back with me. I even got my wallet back, contents fully intact, in the best story of all, when a Czech family found it where I accidentally left it in Prague, somehow found out where I was staying through the US embassy, and invited me into their home for coffee and cake and refused to take any reward for it. Had things gone exactly according to plan, I'd have missed out on some of these experiences.
As for touristy sights vs. going off the beaten path, why does it have to be one or the other? When I visit a new place I absolutely make sure to see some of the more famous sights, because for the most part they're worth it. But I also make sure to do non-touristy things, my favorites being visiting local shops and even supermarkets and department stores, and basically getting lost, meaning putting away the map whether paper or digital and just walking around where the mood hits you.
So long as it's not late at night and you make sure not to go to sketchy places, especially if you're alone, you'll almost certainly discover interesting places you might not otherwise have, plus you'll get a tiny sense of what it's like to be a local, walking on streets and through neighborhoods that mostly locals live and work in. The more you travel the more you develop a sense of where to go, instinctively.
As for travel promoting world peace, I don't see why not. By itself it's unlikely to, but it can certainly help, and generally doesn't hurt, by making you see and appreciate more of the world and its people, cultures, traditions and history. It really is a big world out there and everyone should see some of it!
So well said, and thank you for sharing, as usual! You have so many amazing experiences and perspectives to share.
@@NoraDunn Thanks, and, well, I get around, so to speak, not quite as much as you do 😉(but then you're in this whole other travel category that I can only dream of) or as I used to, but I've had my share of adventures and experiences, and my life is richer for it, as is yours I'm sure. The memories alone fill up so many otherwise empty spaces. Not to mention the souvenirs, mementos and knick knacks one often brings back.
Happy trails! 😊
Absolutely wonderful I love this video everyone in world needs to see this Thank You for sharing I will do the same😊🎉❤
Thank you so much!
Great video as always Nora !! If overpacking was a punishable crime, I would be facing the death penalty 😂
Ha ha!!! There are worse crimes to commit for sure ;-)
Thanks Nora for your insights luv your channel !!!
You're welcome - and thank you! :-)
Absolutely!!! I shared to my friends. Everyone should!!!❤❤😊
Thanks Cheyanne!
Great video! In my travels I have learned that manners and a smile get you so very far. Please, thank you, a respectful greeting in the native tongue is so helpful.
Also, i try to learn Ithe phrase, "I'm so I don't speak (fill in the blank language)" wherever I'm going. That has REALLY helped me!
After living in Italy and England decades ago, I came home with a deep appreciation of "home."
Love this, Mia! And yes, a smile goes a long way, even in cultures where smiling isn't the norm.
I am stronger and more resourceful than I thought I was.
Nice lesson. Thanks for sharing Carolina!
Outstanding video! Even if you can’t travel as much as you want study other places. You’ll see other places, people and cultures are most likely not what media presents.
Exactly! Thanks :-)
I’m Japanese and I don’t like Tokyo and there are many things I don’t like about my country so it’s ok ！ I like Australia for the weather but realized how efficient Japan is in comparison. On the other hand I love Cuba even so many things does not work out “smoothly “ at all , I learned so much from there. It’s depends on what you value the most
Thanks for the input!
I’ve learned a greater appreciation for other cultures, countries and traditions. When I see something on the world news, I have a little better understanding if I’ve been to that country or city before. In general, people are nice and want to be helpful. Learn a few basic words or phases in the local language, and they’ll often go out of their way to help you in return for your efforts. Be polite and pleasant, and don’t act like an idiot by breaking laws. International travel is amazing and something we do 2-3 times a year. I would like to become an expat once I retire.
Thanks for sharing! Great travel lessons.
The final thought is beautiful. Unfortunately, when you watched people over the last few years completely cutting out family members for having an opinion they did not agree with; or knowing how many people in the groups who were attacking the US, London, Paris, etc, who had been educated in the US, had friends, family, etc, and still were full of hate to the point of starting wars, I can’t believe that travel is the key to world peace. :( Sometimes, it is the trigger for the opposite.
I'm so sorry you feel that way. I understand.
Well said . . . Prague and Kyoto both escaped WWII bombings because someone in the decision making chain had travelled to those places and said "No, they are too pretty" Hard to pull the pin when you've walked the streets. You'd think with the internet making the world more accessible, even if only virtually, we'd have less war. But leaders will always want power . . . so here we are. Sigh . . . Thanks Nora! hearts and hugs
Wow, I didn't know that about Prague and Kyoto! There you go....walking the streets, meeting the people.....world peace. :-)
@@NoraDunn For Praque, I think it was actually Hitler and his art background. (she typed trying really hard not to make it sound like a compliment) As I'm sure you know, the buildings are just magical with scroll work and stenciled art. For Kyoto, a top American Military guy had been there on his honeymoon. World Peace through getting leaders to travel and out of their "bubble." Cheers!
Same for Paris. There’s even a movie about this.
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AT 58, I wish I traveled more at a earlier age. And I am not looking for lavish. Just different
Thanks for sharing. I hope you get to travel more now!
I traveled alone and no longer shy after that. It no longer suited me.
Nice!
The more I travel, the more I realize how similar we as humans.
Exactly! Well said, Brenda.
My daughter can speak Chinese. Why because she was going to China and I refuse for her to think everyone should speak English.
Nice!
You are so beautiful-angel face attentive in concentration that listening you around the clock ⏰ wouldn’t be enough.
Forgot proper finishing sentence- even.
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@@NoraDunn sorry, my intention wasn’t make You sad, quite opposite happy with little smile. Never adjust myself to your films- suggesting. Always myself was beginner (never stepped ahead) in selling/buying business
@@TLK677 Don't worry! That was a happy face!
@@NoraDunn those are happy faces 🤣😊😘😉😀- that your is missed plane or friend left without saying “cio bambino”
Hi Nora
I have been traveling 🧳 constantly for about 50 years the lessons I’ve learned are
We are all different
And
We are all the same.
Thank You 🙏
Michael
Love this! Thank you Michael :-)