Because I expect to meet him at this Sunday’s Adventure Travel show here in Seattle, I went to the Rick Steves website and read this on his blog yesterday. I had to share this because he is SO right!
Travel can make you a poet. Travel can be spiritual. You meet people on the road you’d never meet otherwise. Traveling rearranges your cultural furniture, challenging truths you assumed were self-evident and God-given. By traveling, you learn not only about the people and places you visit — you learn about yourself. (You come home pregnant with ideas that you know will piss a lot of people off. And you get a strange joy out of sharing them.)
Rick is SO right