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MEM - What is your own personal
ethos for travel?
•You're a guest in their country, be
a good one. Learn a few of the
important words in the local
We have found that people are
language: please, thank you, food,
much the same everywhere you go, hotel, restaurant, toilet, where is,
we all have much the same hopes
etc. It can make an enormous
and dreams, we all enjoy meeting
difference in your enjoyment of the
others, and our curiosity about the trip and the connections you make.
world is only matched by our
interest in the people we meet
•Be flexible, don't be in a hurry, and
along the way.
keep smiling. "Stuff" happens, and
getting upset about it gets you
Some things we have learned,
nowhere.
mostly the hard way:
•Remember you are an ambassador
•Go with the flow, be open to
for your country and for overland
adventure and new opportunities.
travellers everywhere. MEM
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