1. Travel makes you realize that no matter how much you know, there’s always more to learn.”

Henry David Thoreau, one of the great explorers of his time, reminded himself in his journal, “It matters not where or how far you travel—the farther commonly the worse—but how much alive you are.

New experiences and what they lead to are why travel matters.

Such travel is not through space foreign to us, but in a space that belongs to us. We do not move from our point of departure, but with our point of departure.

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. —T. S. Eliot, “Little Gidding”

Travelers do not go somewhere, but constantly discover they are somewhere else.