| A way to travel 201101227 Min Ho Jung I have always wondered what traveling would be like if it was done by a hot air balloon. Although I am aware that hot air balloons are not the most ideal way to travel, I can not help but wonder what I would feel and see if I was up in the skies, riding the hot air balloon. If I had the chance to travel on a hot air balloon, I probably can not choose a destination as hot air balloons are difficult to navigate. I will have to rely on the winds to see where it takes me. This is what I admire the most about hot air balloons. You can experience true freedom without restrictions that you encounter on land or sea. While people travel for diverse reasons, I want to have the chance to travel purely out of the desire for freedom: to get away from reality and see the outer world. Traveling by a hot air balloon will give me that. Additionally, I would be able to feel my travel by skin. What I mean is that I would get to feel the wind, the blazing sun and the wispy clouds. Whether the climate is cold or hot, I will be able to feel it for myself out in the open. Getting the chance to feel all this will truly make me part of the travel. Sometimes, I feel that I am not truly traveling when I am sitting in a room, while outside it's hot with the sun. When I am in the hot air balloon, I will have no choice but to be exposed to whatever that is waiting for me. In addition, I will be able to see the world from the upper point of view and see how vast the world is. We spend our time seeing the world from the inside, which gives us so much limitation to what we could take in. However, if I were to watch the world from the hot air balloon, I would be able to observe the big picture of the world. The lines of mountains, the scattered lights of the city, and the circles of lakes will all be visible from the above. While traveling by a hot air balloon is no doubt rough and unstable, I believe that it will bring me true experience of traveling without the fancy wrapping papers that most travels come with.
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I have always wondered what traveling would be like if it was done by a hot air balloon. Although I am aware that hot air balloons are not the most ideal way to travel, I can not help but wonder what I would feel and see if I was up in the skies, riding the hot air balloon. If I had the chance to travel on a hot air balloon, I probably can not choose a destination as hot air balloons are difficult to navigate. I will have to rely on the winds to see where it takes me. This is what I admire the most about hot air balloons. You can experience true freedom without restrictions that you encounter on land or sea. While people travel for diverse reasons, I want to have the chance to travel purely out of the desire for freedom: to get away from reality and see the outer world. Traveling by a hot air balloon will give me that. Additionally, I would be able to feel my travel by skin. What I mean is that I would get to feel the wind, the blazing sun and the wispy clouds. Whether the climate is cold or hot, I will be able to feel it for myself out in the open. Getting the chance to feel all this will truly make me part of the travel. Sometimes, I feel that I am not truly traveling when I am sitting in a room, while outside it’s hot with the sun. When I am in the hot air balloon, I will have no choice but to be exposed to whatever that is waiting for me. In addition, I will be able to see the world from the upper point of view and see how vast the world is. We spend our time seeing the world from the inside, which gives us so much limitation to what we could take in. However, if I were to watch the world from the hot air balloon, I would be able to observe the big picture of the world. The lines of mountains, the scattered lights of the city, and the circles of lakes will all be visible from the above. While traveling by a hot air balloon is no doubt rough and unstable, I believe that it will bring me true experience of traveling without the fancy wrapping papers that most travels come with.