이번주 시사영어 강의 기사 : No Plan 여행이 Best Plan 여행일수도

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이번 주에는

완벽한 계획을 하고 떠나는 여행보다

전혀 계획 없이 떠나는 여행이 더 좋을 수 있다는 내용을 가지고
영어훈련하겠습니다.

글쓴이의 언어적 유희를 느낄 수 있을 만큼 잘 다듬어진 글인데요

저와 함께 감상하시죠.

[빨간색 문장들은 고난도 문장입니다. 강의를 듣기 전에 먼저 고민해 보셔야 독해 두뇌가 발달합니다]

[영어훈련 하면서 글쓴이의 논리를 감상하시면, 여러분의 논리력도 강해집니다]

When the Best Travel Plan Is No Plan

Traveling with no itinerary offers pleasures that you can’t get with carefully managed trips. But spontaneity requires an open mind—and an ability to accept occasional disappointments.

By Heidi Mitchell / WSJ

Stuck with a 36-hour layover in Bangkok in December 2016, I made a wild decision: I contacted a Thai friend via Facebook whom I had met decades earlier, when I was studying abroad in my early 20s. Shortly after, Pim arrived at the airport bearing two flared glasses brimming with ice-cold martinis. We hustled onto a flight bound for Phuket, Thailand, and spent the next 24 hours beachside catching up on the past quarter-century. 

It was, clearly, the perfect layover. But for me, it was more than that—it also was a throwback to the self-assured bohemian I once was, who would spontaneously meet up with Danish backpackers on an island lake in Sumatra, or cycle through Vietnam with little more than a backpack and a compass.

I had lost that girl somewhere over the decades, buried beneath color-coded vacation calendars, pooled mileage points and prepaid excursions, all carefully curated months in advance. Now, relaxing on a Thai beach with my old friend, I found myself reconnecting with that 20-something adventurer, open to all possibilities, unfazed by the unknown. 

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