Welcome to Essential Travel

Travel is an essential part of the human experience.

Mark Twain said that travel was fatal to prejudice and narrow-mindedness (he also said that the way to find out if you really like somebody is to travel with them).  Seneca claimed that travel and change of place impart new vigor to mind.  And Henry Miller felt that a destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

The options are as vast as the world is large. 

To make the world a little smaller, there are a few requirements of the modern-day traveler:

• An adventurous spirit
• An intellectual curiosity
• A desire for new ways to see things
• A passion for meaningful experiences and
• Essential Travel