“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land,” – G.K. Chesterton About five weeks ago I was on a small, cramped tourist bus in Vietnam, the beginning of a Mekong River tour. In the back row, five people were sitting and talking about their travels. For all of them, it was their first big trip away from home. Their home was the USA and they couldn't stop talking about how nervous they were to go back there. For an hour I listened to them talk about the reasons why they were[...]
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