I’m a junkie for travel magazines (as my family knows, hence my receiving three subscriptions to three different magazines this past Christmas), and I devour them all from cover to cover when time permits. Which means I get to capture gems like this one in the Editor’s Letter of the June issue of Conde Nast Traveler:
…what all of these experiences have in common are the balance of joy and fear that only travel can bring. Being outside your comfort zone, absent the defining bumpers of your daily life, forces a kind of humility and openness. It is precisely that vulnerability that, ironically, has the power to embolden you to overcome any number of fears – fear of not being able to communicate in a foreign language, fear of feeling like a rube, fear of being a tourist rather than a traveler, fear of the lip at the top of the double black diamond run that you’re determined to get down…. That we get to break our own stereotypes of ourselves when we are in different places is perhaps the greatest pleasure of all.
THAT is why I travel – and to me, what the spirit of exploring is all about. So my promise to myself is to recapture that feeling even when I am in the “defining bumpers” of my life here in DC. Find the time, no matter where you are, to break your own stereotypes.
Obliged to Explore 