You might feel as though the urge to travel is simply
in your blood. Turns out, it just might be.
Paul Theroux, travel writer and the son
of a French Canadian father and an Italian mother, said that the desire to travel
is ‘characteristically human.’ While that
might hold true for Girl Gone Internationals, we all know people who would
rather not leave the comforts of home
and who have never suffered from
acute wanderlust.
So what makes us cram our lives into a
suitcase, cross time zones and seek
adventures in a foreign country: is it
nature or nurture?
Beti Gategi is no stranger to adventure.
Raised in the US by her Kenyan parents, she has lived in Australia, the UK,
and Kenya and has travelled around
Africa. Her parents have now embarked
on their next international adventure
and are in the process of moving from
the US to Turkey.
When asked her thoughts on whether
she was born a GGI or whether her
upbringing made her into one, she
replied ‘My Dad gave me books, which
made me thirsty for knowledge and
adventure.’ When she told him she was
moving to Australia, he ‘all but jumped
at the chance to help me pack. . . I’m
not really sure I had a chance to be
anything other than a Girl Gone
International.’