Ours is a generation which grew up watching discovery & National Geographic Channel, so some years ago folks who were once students watching travel shows are now actually traveling & some have even become globetrotters getting to know the world in whatever way they can. So ‘Why Do We Travel’ & here is one possible
Pico Iyer on Travel: We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again — to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.