The Wandering Soldier

Travel Thoughts for the Outrageously Adventurous. It is always recommended to Travel Fearlessly.

An Old Soldier

The Wandering Soldier: I'm a retired Army Soldier that has a motorcycle addiction, who loves to Travel. It is a good combination. For me travelling is life . Traveling in general, is all about the experience; which I have learned to collect. I collect them like some people collect things, the more that you can collect that are good or even bad unintentionally have the potential to make you a better person. Real travel educates; What I'm talking about is staying in real neighborhoods and eating at local restaurants that haven't been corrupted by chasing the tourist dollar. My greatest travel experiences have been meeting people who did not think of me as a tourist as if I was there to view them like they were in a zoo. On a recent business trip to Kuwait, I had a discussion with a Bangladeshi Taxi driver that not only gave me insight into his life in Kuwait, but also his life and family in Bangladesh where he had started a rice export business. To me, this is what travel is all about. It is about life and the different places that those lives are lived.