May 14, 1896 Thursday | Twain's Geography
Prolific author Michael Crichton on the value of travel. It’s from his book titled…ummm… Travels:
Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your foo
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