This book will challenge your preconceived perceptions on place and allow you to form your own distinct understanding of what a particular place is like. It is not so much where you go and what to see, rather why you see it the way you do and how you can see and experience a place in different ways. The nuts and bolts of this book cover sense of place and how travel affects thought but more importantly why we want to be cognizant and have our thought be affected by place. Most tours, guidebooks, travelogues and websites are built for pleasure experiences and not reality-centered authentic experiences. Why not have both. Other travel books cover places and material over and over in the same way and lack geographic inquiry to fully convey sense of place. This is written from a geographer’s perspective on the true sense of place. We all seek love, acceptance, belonging, purpose and our opinions to be heard. People all around the world surround themselves with family, friends, food, music, nature, and technology as a method of finding companionship, diversity and growth.  Traveling helps one perceive the world in different ways. You begin to analyze your own situation more critically and it can make you realize that there is much more to life than the situation you're in or the troubles you may have. This is written from a geographer's perspective on the true sense of place. An accomplished communications professional and freelance photojournalist Ty has more than 20 years experience capturing images of people and places in more than 100 countries. He has written comments for two Presidents (Bush & Obama) and has published articles from Antarctica to Afghanistan in his quest to tell a story. He has drafted and released breaking news in proactive and crisis communications including national and international headlines. Ty was the point-man for the 2009 Ft. Hood shooting by interviewing, writing and editing a breaking news release to all major news outlets across the globe within 30-minutes of the tragedy. He traversed Russia on the Siberian Railway, learned to haggle in Chinese, completed an Ironman in Brazil, and was witness to escalated protests in Korea. Each new encounter taught him something about the world and himself to create a unique voice as a writer and keen vision as a photographer.   An avid runner, he has spoken at several marathons and sat on expert-running panels. Having coached track & field at the collegiate level for more than a decade he gained clientele ranging from Olympians to professional football (NFL) players; additionally he has trained more than 500 first-time runners through the marathon distance.   As an award-winning journalist Ty promotes the positive effects of travel, education, exercise and an overall healthy lifestyle.