finding your travel magic - street light price

My first experience of travel magic was probably in the Financial Times.
Miles Beach, Florida, we visit my grandmother there every winter vacation.
We spent two days driving, and as I stepped onto her Gravel Lane, I remember being hit by the strong salt water smell floating on the dock covered by shrimp boats and rattan pots.
I was crawling along her small partition and stamp field looking for a chameleon.
They are so strange and exotic to my Midwest.
My grandmother lives in a dark Strait where dolphins sometimes splash and Osprey prey on rotten wooden towers.
If you take a boat to the bay, you can find some semi-submerged boats in the mangroves.
Once again, it could be on a lake in Michigan, where we spent the summer in a country house with a Cinderella wall.
There is a nearby General store run by a white-haired woman, accompanied by her tame shepherd dog.
Next to the cash register, she hangs a few foam packs for the children to prepare craft beer for them by their parents, old books covered with fine silt and a few cans of foam packs for them to be in-
There are only a few unique items in this dark wooden building.
If you don't have a pop-up bubble pack, your eyes will get big when you see a jewel-tone ring, a plastic parachute, a chalk box for Lucky Brand candy cigarettes, and a golden package for Rolos.
This place remained the same until nearly 2011 of the master's death and was the embodiment of magic.
Until I was in my twenties, most of my trips were quite on foot, returning to Bloomington, Indiana to visit good friends who still live in my old university town, stroll around Michigan or my husband's home state of Arkansas.
Unconsciously, I have been experiencing the magic of travel.
On a recent trip abroad, I suddenly realized that whenever I travel now, I subconsciously look for travel magic, and when I didn't find it, I was almost disappointed.
I was lucky enough to live abroad and did more trips than I thought, but foreign travel was expensive and it was hardly worth it without a dose of travel magic.
In fact, you can find the travel magic a few hours away from home.
The first time I really noticed that the traveling magic was in the forest of strange nations in Nepal.
Before dusk, we rode our rusty creaking mountain bikes into the jungle, too big or too small for each passenger.
The jungle tour is a resplendent animal, and I feel the sweat flows sweaty back and lives down the narrow dirt trail bulleting.
On the way home, the sun was full of orange and pink, and soon we got to the village road, no street lights to see, bright orange mixed with midnight blue, the stars and the moon illuminate our way.
The lights of a motorcycle were dramatically turned off, casting the outline, capturing the dust vortex rising from the beam.
It's just a bit scary and becomes exciting and amazing beauty.
Travel magic does not necessarily last for a long time, it can last for a few minutes.
It doesn't have to cost that much either, cycling is the cheapest thing to do on a trip, just a few dollars.
Travel magic is just a short moment when everything is together to create a deep experience with your heart fully open.
Travel can be exhausting, frustrating or even boring at times.
Not every moment dazzles you, but you travel for those short moments.
My understanding of travel magic is that travel is not the only one, but being away from our daily routine will make it easier for me to identify and appreciate fascinating moments.
Perfunctory routines, family stress, work frustration, and endless to-do lists often lead us straight ahead so we can do what needs to be done.
This makes it impossible for us to fully immerse ourselves in the world around us, but travel disturbs our daily lives and forces us to participate.
It's not a lecture about living in the "now" and being present more.
Isn't that another kind of pressure we put on ourselves?
Also, I don't think magic will be so magical if it happens all the time.
But, I do think that whether you are traveling to an quaint B & B in a neighboring town or traveling around the world, you should look for your travel magic.
Don't worry about how long it will last.
Don't worry about its form.
Just know it's waiting and you should be ready when it hits.