Travel is Education

Hunter Cambon, Supervising Educator

I don't know anyone who doesn't think Indiana Jones is cool.  He is famous for his adventures and of course, his whip, but we must remember he always returns to his professorship. The development of Endgame Adventures is focused on travel, intense self-transformation and learning about ourselves and those who adventure with us.

Spending 17 years traveling through Bahamas (Abacos and Exumas mostly) on my family’s 40’ Trawler gave me the hunger to travel independently and gave me the confidence to do so. Now with a platform to work from, I have been spending my time working to create new travel experiences that will put our participants in situations that will encourage growth in both character and in mind.

Like most travelers, I’m hungry for more. More meeting interesting people, more life changing experiences, more stamps on my passport. But recently I’ve been focusing on a new aspect of travel. Planning has always been important, but the romantic idea of finding your way once you’ve landed has always been my M.O. Not so much anymore.

Planning a seamless trip from beginning to end is a time-consuming and daunting task, but is one filled with opportunity to learn. And when I write “seamless” that’s what I mean. Having the foresight and experience to think of most every detail and obstacle that may arise, filling even our downtime with something productive, and connecting the dots to create an as-close-to-perfect trip as possible is a challenge with great rewards. Reflecting at the end of a journey and realizing that all involved have changed, in some aspect, for the better (including myself) is a hard-to-top feeling and fuels my passion for Endgame Adventures. This has changed the way I view education of the mind and soul. It is what truly sticks with us.

In all of our travels we spend time working on academics and service with local, underprivileged students. And in all of our journeys we have discovered that learning occurs so frequently outside of the classroom. At the time (I must have been 10 years old), sitting in the backseat of the family truck watching Indiana on a 12'' TV wedged between the two fronts seats, cords running into the 12v outlet, his line about getting out and learning globally seemed profound. Now, it's the only thing that makes sense. 

The things we are doing today will be our habits in the future, so make a habit of getting out and seeing this world...cause it’s outta this world.