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The power of travel

By Rosemary Mondo

Travel is an excellent way to reset, renew and reinvigorate one's life. It’s a chance for someone to stop, look back and take notice. Travel is a way to replenish, revive and strengthen your inner spirit.

A change of scenery gives a person a new perspective, a new way of looking at life. Travel recharges the batteries, removes oneself and gives oneself a fresh new start.

Wellness travel takes it a step further with pampering treatments, rewarding activities and meditative moments for memorable experiences. Turning pink into a new brighter, more vibrant color to mirror the next chapter.

How do you define travel? A spa retreat, a glamorous outing in the woods (Glamping!), an adventurous trip scaling mountains or a secluded beach listening to the waves roll in. The world of travel inspires our wildest dreams and gives us hope for the future. It resets our life, our purpose and ourselves like nothing else.

It gives us something to look forward to.

Once we’ve arrived, the possibilities are endless. A traveler emerges stronger, braver and wiser than when they started. After 20-plus years hearing your travel stories, I am inspired. Travel has changed people’s lives and always for the better,

even if the trip wasn’t altogether perfect. The experiences make lasting impressions on future decisions, plans and outcomes.

Even during a time when some travel is restricted, there are endless possibilities to achieve the uplifting and relaxing qualities that travel can provide. A day trip to a local spa hotel, an outdoor outing in the Finger Lakes or a relaxing day along the shores of Ontario. Travel is a girls weekend to Mohonk Mountain House, a romantic getaway to Mirbeau Inn & Spa or a family gathering in the Adirondacks.

Perhaps, travel means a bit more or a lengthier stay away to

you. Pamper yourself in the Hamptons at the Shou Sugi Ban House for a week, scratch your travel itch with a getaway to Canyon Ranch in Lenox, escape to Twin Farms in Vermont to soak up the vibrant fall colors, go wild on a peaceful seaside beach on New Jersey’s Long Beach Island or just maybe, an exploration of our great national parks like Acadia National Park located along the shores of Northern Maine.

Wherever your imagination takes you, travel is just the ticket for all your hopes and dreams to come alive.

Rosemary Mondo is the owner of Via Mondo Travel Agency in Skaneateles.