"Today, I think of travel as anything that extends one's realm of experience or expands one's lexicon of acquired convictions -- and occurs beyond the backyard (thus distinguishing it from reading). It is a moment that comes when we are out of our element and allows us to see, or feel, or think, anew. I grow weary of people who declare that travel is dead, who complain about McDonald's in Paris and go off to …showed first 75 words of 591 total…

…showed last 75 words of 591 total…for the desire and need to feel oneself in a a strange and hard to reach place that few have been to is to miss the point, in my view, and to not understand the multifarious psychology of travel; or at best to understant only one aspect of travel motivation. But I think this consistent tendency in the travel literature to denigrate this desire for distinction in travel is misguided and quite missed the point.