Journal 4: Traveling

I have not done very much traveling in my life. It is mostly just visiting family members once or twice in a year. I have really never been out of the state without going to one of my family member's house. The only impact it could have on me is the impact that my family members have on me. I do not visit them very often. As I said I maybe see the rest of my relatives once or twice a year. My grandparents and one of my uncles live in Arizona; another uncle lives in Florida; and the rest of my family is pretty much just located in Chicago. I usually go to see the family in Chicago because it is closest and we will usually do our family reunions there. My travel experience is pretty weak compared to many people. I have been on a plane once in my life, and I have never left the country. I would like to visit other places around the world and absorb some culture, but there are many problems. I do not have the finances to take a plane and go somewhere foreign. I really do not have the time to do that either. I have school, so the only convenient time for travel would be a time we do not have school. I think the only time I would be able to travel to different countries would be in my older years. For now travel has had a minuscule impact on my life, but I would like to change that somehow. Hopefully in the near future I will see someplace that I have never been too. I have only been to Iowa, Minnesota, Arizona, and Wisconsin. That is something that I would like to change because one thing I am missing in my life's experience is that I have not seen many different cultures. I am used to the typical lifestyle that is the United States.