Now, I’m an almost 30-year-old gay man who loves to people watch at hotel bars in Spain and Italy, pretend to know how to play craps at the Mirage and is still as obsessed with Japanese heated toilet seats as I was on my first big international trip to Tokyo more than 15 years ago.įor more TPG news delivered each morning to your inbox, sign up for our daily newsletter. Through my love of travel, I found myself - and eventually learned to love myself. (Photos by Tanner Saunders/The Points Guy) It planted seeds of confidence that eventually grew into the person I am today - a complex garden of emotions, experiences and memories made around the world. Seeing beyond my own world and into the vast differences and beauty of what else was out there slowly allowed me to start seeing into myself. Growing up surrounded by snow-white cotton fields in West Texas, I always felt that I was different than most of the people around me.įrom a very early age, I found solace flipping through the glossy pages of travel magazines that ended up in my house, dreaming about far-off places, people and languages I previously hadn’t known about. I understood I loved to travel before I understood how to love myself.
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