


Travel Advisory: Travel To Lose Self
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more. The beauty of this whole process was best described, perhaps, before people even took to frequent flying, by George Santayana in his lapidary essay, “The Philosophy of Travel.” We “need sometimes,” the Harvard philosopher wrote, “to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.”
-Pico Iyer
from his essay Why We Travel




Feeling Fernweh so Take Me Away!
I just realized I haven’t posted in a month! I am the worst blogger in the world! To you who are somewhow still following this blog, I’m so sorry for my silence. Believe me when I say I have so much to tell you. I’ve been to so many wonderful places over the past …

