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Travel can change your life. It's a simple premise, but one that we forget in today's smash-and-grab culture of instant everything available anytime. We travel to seek new experiences and see things we never imagined. Sometimes we are transformed in the process. Best Life picked 40 globe-trotters and asked them about the one trip that changed each of their lives the most. The results surprised us. They ranged from the classics (forging a family bond with s'mores over a campfire in Shenandoah National Park) to adrenaline-spiking adventures (diving with great white sharks in Australia) to purely sensual indulgences (eating toro sashimi, the choicest fatty tuna, in Tokyo's fish market) to altruistic enterprises (volunteering in a hospital in Nigeria).
These are the trips that will touch you on the inside—magical locations where puzzle pieces that have been floating around in your head for years may suddenly fall into place. These are the places that when you leave, they go with you.
By Buzz Aldrin, Josh Bernstein, Anthony Bourdain, Bill Bryson, Ken Burns, Tommy Chong, General Wesley Clark, Jeff Corwin, Timothy Ferriss, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Sanjay Gupta, M.D., Tony Hawk, Werner Herzog, Jesse James, Greg Mortenson, Michael Pollan, Paul Theroux, and others, with reporting by Nicole Collins, Ben Court, Josh Dean, Tyler Graham, Alison Kotch, Amy Levin-Epstein, Jessica Lothstein, Claire Martin, and Joel Weber.
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