How to Travel with Good Intention: 6 Travel Resolutions for 2021
It’s a new year, and it is time to think about how I want to spend it. Travel resolutions are the perfect way to frame your upcoming travel plans. When I was younger I thought you had to make your resolutions on or before the New Year. Now, I have a more “feel it out” approach. I let the new year arrive, and I see how it feels. What do I need this year? Well, after 2020 and a tumultuous start to 2021 I had some clear Travel Resolutions to make.
My Travel Resolutions
- Do no harm. My number one resolution this year is to keep my travel from negatively impacting the communities I visit as well as my community. I neither want to bring COVID to a community without resources or bring COVID home to my community. Additionally, I am not going to visit any place that is already overburdened by their community. You can read more about my thought process on that here.
- Support the groups that represent the ideals I support. I want to promote and support Black owned businesses. I want to support women owned businesses. I want to support groups like BLM, Cascade Bicycling Club, and JDRF.
- Connect with those I love. For over a year I have been distancing from the people I cherish most. I want to use my travel to invite the people I have missed the most to reconnect and create new memories.
- Be active. I don’t know about you… But I definitely have gained the COVID 19. Being stuck in the house, working hard, and no longer having a gym available has been a perfect storm for a more sedentary lifestyle. I am going to promote and participate in more active forms of travel. Bikes, hikes, and walks.
- Go big or go home. This year is my year of travel. I have been trapped in my house with Dave, and we are looking to go big!
- When in question return to number one.
The overarching theme of these resolutions is: bring good intention. While I am one person I want to support the ideals I believe in while I am traveling, wherever I may go.
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These are such great resolutions! One of mine is to find ways to travel more sustainably and support the causes I care about as well. Loved your list!
These are so thoughtful! Thanks for sharing. It’s going to be interesting to see how travel looks this year.
I can’t wait to travel again, but I agree. I don’t want to put more people, especially in countries with less capacity and infrastructure than the United States (where I live), at a greater risk of covid exposure. Sticking to occasional local outdoor travel for now.
Great list and very thoughtful.
I like you travel resolutions!
I do like your travel resolutions – When I leased out my house in 2018 to travel the world, I had no clue that a pandemic would nix a lot of that…
The house is still leased; I’m back in New Mexico; I’m homeless! But luckily, I have friends – what a mess. If we can manage it, I also plan to travel big when US citizens can go to Europe. First off, I’ve gotta go squeeze the grandies in Germany!
This is such a important and wonderful post! Thank you so much it’s given me alot to think about!
this gave me a lot to think about, as we start to travel again. i too want to go big in 2021, but definitely in a way that does no harm.