Try things you haven’t done before

Having a special treatment with the “healing properties” of Dead Sea mud and salt. A strange experience being scrubbed with salt and then wrapped up in it. And then down at the Dead Sea…Look, Mom, no hands! So easy to float. When I tried to stand up I couldn’t get my feet down. But don’t let a drop of it get in your eyes. The salt content is ten times more than the ocean. I found out the hard way.

A New York reporter felt like her life was going by too fast, so she did an experiment to slow down time. She decided to do only new things for a week. She only ate foods she had not eaten before. She slept in a different bed every night by couch surfing. One night she slept on the roof of her building. She saw a guy skateboarding down the street and she asked him to teach her. She went to the beach to take surf lessons even though she wasn’t a good swimmer. She took a road trip by herself. By the end of the week she felt like she had lived many weeks. I think the same is true of travel if you open yourself up to different experiences. It makes it easy to answer the question, “What have you been doing lately? Hence, this blog.Read more