Travel Green

I love to travel.  I don't think there is a single person out there who hasn't played the game "If I had a million dollars what would I do?"  After sharing it with family and friends, without question, my number one choice would be travel!

I love meeting people of different races.  I love trying different foods.  I love getting absorbed into other cultures.  And I absolutely love seeing beautiful and unusual places.  I am a very visual person and pictures are wonderful, but without a doubt, the very next thought after seeing a picture, is I want to be there.

Pretty soon the wonderful, beautiful, and extraordinary places will be gone due to people not taking care of the environment and ironically travel can hurt the very places we want to go.

First of all, reduce the number of plane rides.  Non stop is a better way to travel and it is better for the environment.  If your a road trip warrior, consider hypermiling.  Yes, hypermiling.  Hypermiling is techniques used to reduce your gas consumption such as using your cruise control, slowly accelerating, and leaving space between you and the driver in front of you so you don't have to break as frequently.

Become a locavore.  I love this because it is the very reason why I want to travel.  A locavore is someone who eats what is available locally.  I'm all about this!  Canoli's in Italy, croissants and cheese in France, chocolate in Switzerland or Belgium... yes... it is good to eat locally!

There are so many, many other things.  Quit buying bottled water!  We all need to quit buying bottled water! Bring your own portable power... in other words use solar energy!  Imagine charging your phone while lying on the beach!  Recycle EVERYTHING!  Heck even my e reader is green.  No more having to cut down trees to create paper for books, right?

If we can travel green... then those very places we want to see will still be around for when we can afford to get there.  Right?

This is a sponsored post for Goal Zero, however, all the points and views are my own.