65 Lessons from the Road 2 Elsewhere

Everything you need to know about travel, in twelve words or less (mostly)

I hold these travel truths to be self evident:

1. The destination is optional. Attentiveness is all.

2. A new place means a new mindset.

3. A train ride is a narrative.

   

   Pont de Bir-Hakeim, crossed by me in 1978, and Leo DiCaprio/Ellen (now Elliot) Page in Inception, in 2010.

4. Travel doesn’t only broaden, it lengthens (understanding), it deepens (empathy), and it ext…