Sara Redmond-Neal

… front of the pyramids, wanting to check Twitter. Relax. Your holiday isn’t over when you get home. That feeling you hoped to have in front of the Taj Mahal that escaped you in the moment? It may come to you when you remember the day or look at pictures five years later. The real souvenirs aren’t the miniature Eiffel Towers or camels we might bring home — they’re the m…

…rowing as much money as we could at having the softest sheets, the best drinks, the least friction. But sometimes it’s friction that brings us what we really want now: human connection. That might mean leaning across to your neighbor and saying, “What’s it like for you?” When that person is from another culture, you can appreciate more what’s particular about being you…

see the impulse to travel as a desire …life is to become who you really are. I think he means we should explore all our possibilities, and there are bits of us, waiting to be discovered, lodged in faraway places. So one can see the impulse to travel as a desire to complete ourselves.