In my 18 years of existence, I have never traveled before. I have visited a few places here and there in Missouri and in Illinois, Indiana, even Michigan, but nothing that I would consider travel. To me, traveling would consist of something different. Going across the ocean to another country where there are different customs, where the social norms are not the same as ours would be traveling for me. Going to the opposite side of the U.S. where phrases and day to day activities are significantly different than what I am used to would be travel. To me, traveling is not just going four hours away from your home and seeing new sights, or even jumping to a neighboring state to visit new landmarks. Travel is something meaningful where you gain new knowledge of something you rarely come across of. Sure, seeing the Notre Dame Catholic Church in Michigan is not something you see everyday in Missouri, but the customs that surround the church are all generally the same as the rest of the Midwest. Even though Michigan is hours away it is still not travel, I could go less than 50 minutes away to an Amish settlement and have it count as traveling because their day to day norms are nothing like mine. Travel does not necessarily deal with how far away some place is, but just how different it is in comparison to my normal life.