Let me tell you an interesting story one of my partners told me in a language exchange. 

She is Japanese. At that time, she was working as a bartender, and she wanted to travel to Saudi Arabia because she thought it was a good opportunity to improve her profile.

But while she was there, she noticed the city was very superficial, and people judged you based on how much money was in your bank account. She was there for about a year. She hadn't made any plans when the holidays arrived. Then a new opportunity arose. 

She had never been to Thailand before so she made the decision to go there to discover the hidden treasures in the country. I knew of her adventures because of the photos she posted on her status everyday. There was one with a slow-moving train with many people taking it on both sides of the road with a beautiful landscape in the background. She told me details about the jungles with exotic animals like tigers.

When I was a teenager, I watched a movie about a frustrated writer that went inside a photograph of a beach on a calendar. In a similar way, I wished that I was inside these photographs taking the train with the rest of the people and having adventures in a foriegn country as a backpacker.