Share a story about the furthest you’ve ever traveled from home

Daily writing prompt
Share a story about the furthest you’ve ever traveled from home.

By distance, it has to be Kauai. It was a company meetup, one of the most epic I’ve attended. 12.9K km, 24+ hours of travel one-way. Our lead wanted to organize the best meetup ever and did one that’s very difficult to beat. It remained a good lifetime memory.

The sign says that if you swim, you'll be carried away by the currents and there will be nobody to help.

Imagine you have a group of 20 to gather together for a week from all over the world. Where would you go? Turns out that if you optimize for travel time, travel cost, opportunity cost, hotel, food, and convenience, you’ll get a very small list of cities next to the biggest airports on the planet. The group of 20 is likely skewed one way or another. Have more Americans? The top 10 choices will be continental USA or Canada, you end up visiting Montreal or Portland every year. Have more people from the EU? Lisbon, Barcelona, Amsterdam. You’ve got to have some Australians in the group to make Kauai even remotely possible 🙂

However, if we don’t count physical distance but the time and effort it takes to come back home, it has to be the military service.

7 thoughts on “Share a story about the furthest you’ve ever traveled from home

      1. That’s a talent – to create joy from the travel, then exemplify the happiness through blogging while being rewarded as a joy-maker.
        You got me thinking 🙏😀.
        Google got it made, such that many people are inspired to share just for the joy of sharing, under the tagline of “inspiring curiosity “ and a scoring system. This discussion is sparking me to write an article about marketing. Haha, great discussions. 🙏👍

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