People travel to check off bucket lists, see amazing places and eat delicious foods, but one of the Bro’s favorite parts of travel is the people you cross paths with. This week we teamed up with a group of fellow travel bloggers to share our stories of the trip that changed us from tourists to travelers. A major shoutout to Agnes at Travel On The Reg, who put this all together. Check out her blog to read all of the amazing, interesting tourists to traveler transformation stories.

Read on below to see the Bro’s story.

A Scandinavia trip forever turned us from tourists to the travelers we are today. 

Like all of our trips up to that point, it was a standard two-week vacation. Only this time, our plans were loosely-based: fly to Copenhagen, and get to Bergen 15 days later for a flight home. 

Having flexibility in our travel was something new for us. After a few days exploring Copenhagen, we booked a flight to Iceland over some beers in the hostel. 

Why not? 

We rented a car, embarking on our own road trip along the southern coast of Iceland. 

Arriving in Bergen, we were welcomed with Norway’s Constitution Day celebration, an important cultural event to add to our adventure.

The trip had everything. Interesting cities. Meeting new people in hostels from around the world. Connecting with local people, food, traditions and culture in three countries. Getting in touch with nature surrounded by fjords, mountains, volcanoes, geysers, waterfalls and black sand beaches. The freedom to wing it a little. The lesson that sometimes no plan can be the best plan. 

When we returned home, life would never be the same. Two months later, we were talking about traveling around the world. One year later, we quit our jobs, traveling through 23 countries over the next 13 months. 

The journey changed our perspectives, and we credit that trip to Scandinavia for setting us on a path of becoming deeper travelers. Since then, we’ve been rewarded with special experiences countless times along the way.

Check out Travel On The Reg for the full post and more travel transformation stories!

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