Sensor for a while and talk about human connection, being on the road. Even if you travel by yourself, you will find it rare to be alone. So human connection is one of the biggest parts of traveling. It's about learning to see yourself through the eyes of other people, but also learning a lot about other people by really connecting and getting yourself out there every day. And in travel community. If you travel for a long span of time, people that you need in hospitals, people that you meet on the road is very special.

And we are here today now to share with you a little bit the do's and the don'ts and what we have experienced and what we've learned about human connection while being on the road. You want to get exactly Let's go. So first of all, this is exactly why we are here. Dinesh, because we had that human connection, I feel that this kind of friendship, even though we barely meet, we've seen each other for the first time after two years. And now we're here today again, but it doesn't make it less valuable. And there are those friends that we grew up with, or the friends that we have back at home, where we have the luxury of a physical presence.

So the rules of that friendship are very different to the rules of a nomadic friendship, but they are just as valuable. So I feel when someone tells me that it's not real, because we are sending voice messages to each other communicating online, that that's fake, it's not fake, because it's the quality of the information that we share what I learned from traveling, we don't have the luxury of time, so we have to make quality, the most the priority of our conversations. So instead of telling in it, what's my favorite color, I asked her a very deep question and she needs to give me the answer. So I actually get to know a piece of her and I can connect myself Today, and we share values constantly. And if we only have a few days or a few weeks together, we have this such in depth conversations that creates the friendship strong enough in order to keep in touch, and this can last for a lifetime.

And that this is my experience from all the other travelers that they did meet a few of those key persons that stayed in their life forever, or at least for a long period of time. Where are you in? I completely agree. And what I would add is that being part of a travel community actually enables that because the beauty about traveling is that everybody travels by themselves and when you meet them, or even if you travel in Paris, when you go to hostels, or when you go to activities, like hiking, for instance, several days in the mountains being isolated and disconnected from the world. It creates this environment that enables meaningful conversations. So you don't spend your time Going through Instagram or Facebook, you really are available to each other and the empty moments that you have where you will usually pick up a phone, you spend connecting with others.

Okay, so we also talked about being alone and that's I find the key challenges because we share the space the private space with a lot of people. So being alone, it doesn't mean physically being alone unless you can afford to check yourself in a private room or hotel and if you can do so, because you will need to meet time, but I checked out and I communicated to the people that I need some time to myself, I prioritize my own need. And and once I was recharged, I was ready to be out there because I cannot afford to put less than 100% in a human connection because most of the travelers they everybody has different levels of energy and those who just started they're very energetic, and if I want to get to know them, I have to be on the same level. So I prefer to take a few days to myself and then get to know these guys God people.

Exactly. And also one of the things that a lot of people ask us when we tell them that we've traveled by yourself. One of the questions is, are you never lonely? Well, you're not. And that is exactly what funny is, is mentioning. Sometimes when you travel by yourself, you are always surrounded with other people.

Because you go out there, you do stuff, you connect with locals, you connect with people in hostels, and sometimes you really need some time for yourself. And that's when you go and isolate yourself, or you check into a hotel or you get an Airbnb for a few days, just to be by yourself for a while. And this is why it's important to make these human connections. Because I did feel lonely here and there when I didn't make the effort, but it was my own fault. I checked out for too long for like four weeks and I didn't make a single friend. Then I felt lonely because for four weeks, I didn't have these kind of deep meaningful conversations, but because I didn't realize that I went on this lonely journey for too long.

So it is possible to feel lonely, but it's always up to us. I feel exactly and that is what we wanted to point out as well. You make your travel a success. The beauty about traveling and the lessons that we've learned and that we share is like running your own business. It is putting yourself out there every time and what you put in, you get out sometimes you don't want to be social, but sometimes you do. So if you feel lonely, or if you feel sad, you really need to make an effort, a conscious effort and put on a smile and get yourself out there.

Because it is scary. Sometimes spending five days in a hospital where you are surrounded with lovely people, you make friends, and then you decide to go on your way you say goodbye. And you have to check into a different environment with different people and different vibe in a different area. And it takes effort and it never gets easier. You kind of adjusted which you don't question it anymore. And you just go with the flow.

You're saying goodbye. This is a good point. Because what I realized that after a while, we're just we don't say goodbye. That's all. Yes, not a word that we have in our vocabulary because I feel that goodbye has an emotion to it. And it's usually negative, it comes with a little bit of pain that I will miss that person.

But now I will miss the personal presence of that person, but the friendship is not gone. So I feel I say, See you later, or see you somewhere else. Because we know that the people we made the best connection with we will be at some point, and we can keep a friendship alive online. We've done this for two years, and we are here today to tell you all about it. This is a friendship that lasted and is not the only friendship that we gained from our year travel. Exactly.

And on the other hand, some people you want to say goodbye to and that's also the beauty about traveling. For me. It taught me a lot about boundaries and saying no And not allowing other people to take that space. I was coming up and putting my foot down for my own personal space, which is a hard thing being a professional caregiver because you want to kind of save everybody or help everybody, but traveling and being surrounded with so many different peoples from so many different backgrounds. Traveling for so many different reasons really helped me to get to know myself better and to set boundaries to people that made me feel comfortable. And that's when I felt comfortable in saying goodbye but are being removed.

We are learning a lot about goodbyes, but not just to our family friends to everyone and emotionally checking out that's a real goodbye. I feel like we didn't check out emotionally we knew that this is going to last so within now moving to communicating with locals how to make connections with them. Now this also depends on the country or the region where you are minuscule done in Latin America, people are generally curious. They're afraid And we have the language in common, which also helps a lot, because we share information this way. But connecting with the locals is another thing that I learned to find the value a lot of value in that the way they see the world helps me understand that there's another perspective. And even if I choose to see the world through my own eyes, at least I so how else can I do that?

I think one of the most beautiful experience that I had was to just get myself out there and started walking around in local towns with and trying to engage with local people by asking simple things like where's this shop? Or can I find this or that? Or when when I was in Cuba, what I learned and what was so special to me is that people just came up to you like funny said, just to talk to you and to ask where you're from and start a conversation. And in the beginning, it might feel like very intimidated because maybe you come from a culture where that is not a common thing. But traveling also makes you more open to these things and makes you more available for surprises. Like certain things.

It just helps us understand the differences between us and find the value in and because in my culture, I'm from Eastern Europe, we don't touch people like this. I do Latin. Yeah. But I wouldn't do it but because of traveling, I learned to do it. And I have to be conscious of who I do it with. But I feel that we cross that boundary as well because I learned from the locals.

So one of the key advantages of interacting with the locals is that we find that information of a certain place that's not online, or they have a personal experience with it. And through their eyes, we get to see something that we wouldn't have seen and to wrap it up human connection is part of your travel and will teach you so much not only about yourself, but it will take you to places that no one else has ever gone before. Because You put yourself out there and make an effort. So don't be scared, get ready for the unknown and just embrace people's cultures. And sometimes you will be shocked but most of the time you will find yourself in magical places having magical moments. So don't forget, you have to talk talk, talk talk dada, dada.

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