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This #Wanderlust Account Challenges Millennial Travel Notions
This #Wanderlust Account Challenges Millennial Travel Notions
Jan 17, 2024 3:40 PM

The exquisite Azores, Portugal. (Photo credit: Dino Mehle)

Meet Dino Mehle, a 23 year old Slovenian national who started , the Instagram account that’ll transport you to the most incredible places and make you reevaluate the meaning of travel.

A cosy village peaking out of Portugal's east coast. (Photo creditL Dino Mehle)

Mehle launched @True.Living first as a snarky way to parody typical millennial or “hipster” accounts that use inspirational quotes and take carefully posed candid photos-- an oxymoron in terms of the greatest degree.

Along the river in Copenhagen, Denmark. (Photo credit: Dino Mehle)

Much like accounts like the character Skellie at and , as Mehle put it, the account mocks “people posting pictures in mountains with clean shoes...you get the image, right?” He says even the account handle was a caricature of itself: “'True.Living' - I mean, who am I to claim to know the concept of True Living?” he said.

But shortly after he started the account, he had a change of heart. “People started writing how I inspired them [through the account],” he said. “Photographers started sending photos to get featured,” he added. It was at that point that he decided to “stop being bitter and change [my] attitude.”

Overlooking the blue waters on the cliffs of Nazare, Portugal. (Photo credit: Dino Mehle)

Now, the account serves as a way to create community and inspire people to travel-- much like he does. He hopes the account will “add another perspective” to how people view the world and “to encourage them to book a flight, pick up surfing, build a treehouse or just to go for a walk in nature,” he explained.

Casual mountain climb. (Photo credit: Dino Mehle)

Mehle has been traveling for much of his life. As a child, he recalls going with his family on “rather touristic trips to Egypt, Spain, Tunisia,” but his perception shifted last year when he moved to Portugal as an exchange student.

How? Well, he believes the world travel is overused. “Everyone that goes to paris for three days, only leaves the hotel when taking a selfie with eiffel tower, is suddenly adventurer,” Mehle told weather.com. And these people, he said, use “various hashtags #travel #wanderlust.” That’s not traveling, he explained adamantly.

The Napoleon Bridge near Kobarid, Slovenia. (Photo credit: Dino Mehle)

What traveling is, he posited, is a “passion for discovering foreign cultures, places, languages, habits.” He ventured even further, saying “for that, you have to stay at same place for weeks.”

Overall, Mehle hopes his travel experiences can prompt people to think differently about their own lives. “Routine is lethal and many are not aware of the fact.”

Good waves in Peniche, Portugal. (Photo credit: Dino Mehle)

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