One of the things that always happens to me when I watch a movie is that I get inspired to go on vacation. Sometimes I want to travel to the setting of the movie because it’s a place that I’ve never been to before. Sometimes I want to go to an unrelated destination because the accents of the actors make me think about it. Sometimes a good movie just makes me feel like I’ve escaped my life for two hours and I want to go on vacation to prolong that escape.

Sometimes it’s obvious how a movie has inspired my travel plans. Right after seeing an inspiring documentary about people who ski Canadian Rockies, I may decide to look into vacations to Canada. The movie makes me want to have that experience. But a lot of times the connection doesn’t seem as clear. In fact, it took a long time for me to even notice that my vacation plans were frequently inspired by the films that I’d been watching. Now I try to pay attention to what I go see at the movie theatre. After all; whichever movie I walk out of may be the one that inspires my next trip to an exotic destination!

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