I used to see countries I'd visited as places I'd 'done.' Slow travel changed that.

Macie Strum, a traveler who has visited over 50 countries, reflects on how her perspective on travel has shifted from counting countries to embracing slow travel. Initially focused on visiting as many places as possible, she now values deeper connections and revisiting destinations. Her experience in Georgia, her 50th country, made her realize that the number of countries visited is not a true measure of being well-traveled.

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