The ultimate trip - come on! A short walk to the local shop can easily turn into the ultimate trip - it's your inner self that dictates it all! I clearly remember a trip with my mom and aunt (in my early puberty) to the spot where the Indian and Pacific Oceans meet... a 5 hour drive through beautiful landscapes (southeast of Perth), during which I could not stop fighting with my mother over a silly thing. By the time we reached our destination, I was so stubbornly mad at my mom, that refused to get off the car and see this miraculous spot! One could say I missed an ultimate trip, but I could argue. Naturally - I missed a spectacular view, that I might never have the chance to see again, yet, that made my urge to visit the place again greater! If I'd seen the spot at 13, I might have forgotten it by the time I turn 30. Yet, it was a trip enough fighting with my mom itself and asserting my fragile independence, while driving through Australian sites.

Barely 25 now, I've had the chance to visit and live in a number of places - a blessing that I wish to everyone! And thus - what is most enriching about it all is not that you've seen this and that, been here and there - it's what you've made out of it all - what's left in you and what you've left in OTHERS! Traveling is essential for building yourself up - you compare, you ask, you analyze, you suffer, you cheer... you learn how to deal with yourself in different contexts - that's the ultimate trip!

A trip to the local mountain that I shared with a person, whom I'd just met, but will always love was more of an ultimate trip for me than seeing the pyramids in Giza. Walking in Harlem, NYC was more of an ultimate trip than seeing the Statue of Liberty. Feeding a wild camel on the beach in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt was more of an adventure than entering Notre Dame, Paris.
The ultimate adventure is what you allow yourself to experience in a given moment and what you make out of it for yourself and others around you. The ultimate trip is the inner trip, yet it is impossible without interaction with the outer world!