The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) estimates that internationally there were just 25 million tourist arrivals in 1950. 68 years later this number had increased to 1.4 billion international arrivals per year. Traveling has obviously changed a lot because of COVID-19, but it still remains one of the most sought out activities by humans. Something about exploring the unknown, meeting new people and going on adventures. One of the beauties of traveling is how you're pushed to become more vulnerable, to open up, and how doing so allows you to form deep relationships with strangers in a very short period of time. That's how I met Rudy. Today we go on a WALK to explore traveling and the wonders it brings. For context, this episode was recorded a couple months after the WHO announced the COVID-19 pandemic, so we focus on traveling up until that point.