If travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.

Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset, and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.

You need to move around a bit. To shuffle your surroundings. To wake up in cities You don’t know your way around and have conversations in languages you cannot entirely comprehend. There is always this tremendous longing in yout heart to be lost, to be someplace else, to be far far away from all of this.