Years ago, a friend asked me where I wanted to go next and reflexively I responded, anywhere at all.

Lightbulb Moment: anywhereatall.com was born.

I love adventurous travel that challenges me physically and mentally. Often, you find these experiences off-the-beaten-trail but so, too, you can find them in the more frequented destinations if you dig in a bit.

To have amazing travel experiences, strangely, the first prerequisite is you have to leave the knowing comforts of your home. I mean, you can’t just sit at home and wonder about it all. Equally, you shouldn’t rely on the experience of others to inform you of your world, or any place for that matter. Nothing is better than your own direct experience. And, you have to make travel your priority. Once that decision has been made, your journey will write itself.

So why not travel in search of the phenomenal, the sublime and the transformational?

 We can minimize our physical and cultural impacts when we travel. Often, the physical destination pulls us in but it’s the experience with people where we get a lot of our rich experiences.

Call it travel with purpose in search of transformation. 

Travel should be fun, indeed it can be a smorgasbord of good times. Many times I’ve got so immersed in my destination that I forget to think about home at all. It’s kind of a weird, out-of-sight / out-of-mind thing where I don’t think about home until I start my journey homeward. I guess that proves that, despite loving my home, I’m not a traveler who gets homesick. 

Yet, travel encompasses many, many different genres and moments. Many are great, some are run-of-the-mill and some are just plain horrendous. And somehow the horrendous ones often get the most attention, the most traction. There seems to be a part in us that is attracted to drama, to when things go sideways.