I interrupt my trip updates with an opportunity for you to be inspired to get out there and travel. Being a lifetime member of Hostelling International Canada, I get the occasional e-mail about upcoming events. One of them had been flagged in my inbox, but unfortunately, the event has already passed.
What you could have attended August 28 at the Vancity Theatre was a showing of A Map for Saturday, a travel documentary in which HBO producer Brook Silva-Braga (who was scheduled to be in attendance at the showing) leaves his job and travels around the world for almost a full calendar year. I stumbled on this in the spring while flicking through channels. By then, I had already resigned from my job and was slowly building my UK/Ireland itinerary. Silva-Braga, with all his filming gear, asks travellers he meets why they’re travelling; their responses were candid. Silva-Braga turns the camera on himself too, opening up the way I’m doing with this blog. When I finished watching, I just wanted to get out, right then and there, and never stop.
If you’re on the fence, wondering if you should go travel, for whatever the length, here’s the trailer. If the last person, a 73-year-old from the States, doesn’t get you motivated, I don’t know what will.
