What if your work happens to be promoting peace on the grassroots level, literally one step and one meal and one music jam at a time? Just because certain folks choose to work in an office or store doesn’t mean there aren’t other avenues of meaningful contribution in the world. Maybe there is a book or documentary film to come out of their experience. And in the whole process, during the trip and subsequently, who is to know the influence or the good to come of it? The lives they touch along the way; how their own lives will be shaped and changed.

Enriching ideas can come from unexpected places — and have a way of taking root and growing.

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If you want a bike vacation – that’s fine – just call it a bike vacation and not inflate it (and your egos) by calling it some world mission.