Why Travel

Traveling whirls you around, turns you upside down and stands everything you took for granted on its head. We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again — to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more. The beauty of this whole process was best described, perhaps, before people even took to frequent flying, by George Santayana in his lapidary essay, “The Philosophy of Travel.” We “need sometimes,” the Harvard philosopher wrote, “to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.” Hence this travel blog!

4 Comments so far

  1. Emtyaz Ahmud (unregistered) on November 26th, 2005 @ 4:05 pm

    Tuscan Way provides visitors a unique and rare opportunity to live and experience life, as it really is, in Tuscany. We specialize in cooking course holidays designed for small groups. We introduce our guests to the locals, letting them witness firsthand the culture, tradition and land.


  2. Casa Innocenti (unregistered) on November 26th, 2005 @ 4:07 pm

    Tuscan Way provides visitors a unique and rare opportunity to live and experience life, as it really is, in Tuscany. We specialize in cooking course holidays designed for small groups. We introduce our guests to the locals, letting them witness firsthand the culture, tradition and land.


  3. TM (unregistered) on November 27th, 2005 @ 11:17 am

    words embedded like perls!

    very nice.


  4. Opee (unregistered) on November 28th, 2005 @ 10:04 pm

    Is it TM of spider? :$



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