Travelling Beyond Closed Doors

Closed.

Everywhere you look, things are closed.

Doors to our homes are closed. Restaurants are closed. Libraries are closed. Countries are closed. Minds are closed.

We’ve closed ourselves in. We‘ve closed ourselves off. And in our closing, other scarier doors have opened to loneliness, isolation and suspicion.

Publishing a travel blog at a time when leaving your front door is practically forbidden might seem a bit odd. With the entire world in some level of lockdown, dreaming of traveling to distant places seems, well, distant!

But beyond closed doors, a whole world still awaits. A world that is good and beautiful. A world that invites us to wander in wonder.

You see, travel is the ultimate door opener. Sometimes it opens the physical door of someone’s home that looks nothing like the one you live in. Other times, it opens the doors of your eyes that, for far too long, have only seen things from one perspective. Inevitably, it breaks down the door to the questions of the soul. And always, if you let it, travel opens wide the doors of understanding.

So from behind your closed doors, come travel with me. Beyond.