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"Your Town" Travel Guide
How to travel without leaving your town
By Élan Schmitt
Travel Tips for the Hometown Traveler
- Visit your local visitors' center or Chamber of Commerce
- Go to the local hostel or hotel and experience your town with people that have come to enjoy your town
- Keep an open mind
- Talk with friends and locals as to why they like your town
- Try something new that you never have tried or done before
- Do something you've always wanted to do but have never done
- Do something you thought you'd never do but always wanted to
- Have fun
- Be adventurous
- Visit local landmarks or attractions
- Imagination is golden
- Don't limit yourself to routines
- Take time for yourself
- Venture out to new places you haven't been
- Venture out to old and familiar places, but act like you've never been there
- Start up a conversation with someone new
- Allow for an unplanned and unstructured day or weekend
- Enjoy all the "spice" and newness of the place, people, and experience
- Seek the positives rather than the negatives
- If only for a couple of hours detach yourself from your everyday life: you're a traveler now!
- Relax and soak up the experience
- Create your experience and allow it to shape as you go
- Don't hold yourself back, go ahead be crazy!
- Above all, travel through your town like you've never been there before!
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