The incredible experience of traveling.

By Thierry Baurez (Dir. Sales & Marketing)


Whether you travel for leisure, business or any other reason, there is always an enriching experience in each of your journeys.

Traveling enables you to live parallel lives. Your day by day life is placed on hold while you start a new traveler’s one. You bring with your thoughts, concerns, responsibilities, cultural baggage but you will experience them in a different background. A new version of yourself will come up and act in a slightly different way than the “home” you.

If you travel for leisure you will do all those things you never have the time to do back home: wake up late, enjoy a real breakfast, spend a whole afternoon reading a book, pamper yourself with a good massage for 2 hours, explore and exchange anecdotes with new people and many other activities which are not in your regular schedule.

If you are traveling for business, you will experience a completely different routine. Even if at night, back to the hotel, you need to touch base with your regular life through the emails and office phone calls, your mind is freed from any possible monotony, you become more efficient and your creativity is enriched.


Traveling requires some sacrifices but enables you to discover and value more easily the little details that you wouldn’t notice in your ordinary life because they are it is part of your routine.


For example, I live in Los Cabos Mexico. I work for a new resort located in Cabo San Lucas with stunning views of the calm waters of the Medano bay and Los Cabos’ landmark:


On a regular day I hardly take the time to enjoy those views. I hardly enjoy the fact that the weather down here is just perfect: not to warm and not too cool.

I don’t value the fact that on my way to my office I drive with no traffic for 20 minutes, on a perfect road with outstanding color contrasts between the green Golf courses, the red desert rocks and the blue turquoise of the Pacific.

I don’t notice that very few people in the world might see a whale on their way to work http://www.youtube.com/v/P_EwTNPAE08. I don’t remember that people here live free of smog, crime, stress… I realize how lucky I am to live in Cabo and work for Casa Dorada Los Cabos when I come back home after some weeks out on business trips.

On the spiritual and intellectual side, traveling helps you to find the time you never have on your regular day to be with your inner self. Being in a plane, bus or train for more than two hours enables you to clear your ideas, put some peace in your mind and meditate on those projects you put on hold because you are always busy.

I personally love to enjoy the views of the clouds while I hear new age music to free my mind, when I’m away for a long time and I fly back home I love to hear “life for rent” from Dido (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D80B0HCyQpQ)

When I arrive to Cabo, I find out that I don’t have a “life for rent” but a “life in paradise”.

The parallel life you live on a trip causes positive changes on the “home-you”. You come back full of new experiences that help you to become a richer person. You learn new cultures, new ways of working, acting, eating, enjoying, playing, praying, etc. You become a more complete person and that will benefit your behavior, your personal life, your work quality and your relations with all who surround you.
Once you start traveling you will never want to stop.