Rick Steves Response

I really enjoyed the content of this chapter. Rick Steves asserted that to view travel  through a political lens is to question the conventional, societally acceptable way of travel, i.e. going to a remote destination to relax and hit the beach. While he doesn’t say that this form of travel is wrong, he discusses how ehancing mainstream travel can be more fulfilling. This takes the form of knowing the history of where you are going, traveling with an understanding of that given culture, and going with the intention of building understanding of and empathy for new places. This has made me think differently about travel. Rather than it being a one sided event that you expirence, it can be multi-deminsional and interactive.