heightened spiritual awareness is the natural result of your choice to put the material world in its place and hit the road for an extended time. Where your treasure is, your heart will be also—and your decision to enrich your life with time and experience (instead of more “things”) will invariably pay spiritual dividends. Travel, after all, is a f

I might return not only with a cleaner understanding of a landscape that had been a fixation since my boyhood, but with a better grasp of who I was, and perhaps a renewed sense of whom I might yet become, before it was too late to grow and change.