Travel transforms our perspective, making the vast world feel small and connected. It offers a gift of appreciation, especially after being restricted from it. Writers from various backgrounds explore the diverse motivations behind travel, including the yearning to understand beyond one's own culture. Personal reflections reveal how growing up in a culturally divided environment inspired a lifelong desire to experience different traditions and lifestyles, illustrating a common struggle with familiar surroundings, prompting a quest for authenticity and deeper understanding through exploration.
Travel can make our large world small, and we forgot what a gift this is until it all got taken away from us not too long ago.
I grew up in Quebec during the time of the two solitudes, when the French rarely spoke to the English and anglophones could live and work in the province for decades without having to learn a word of French.
I was drawn to anthropology and travel because I hungered for raw and authentic experiences.
Like many of my peers, I suffered from French poet Charles Baudelaire's malady-the 'horror of home.'
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