The Gift of Travel, The Prison of Travel

Your travel takes up a week, but that week is a physical space, a bubble, a monastery in time where everything has meaning, particularly in a place like Switzerland, where everyone is kind and everything runs on time and life feels easier than it ever has before. And you begin to have the sort of space to think thoughts that are bigger than the day and the week and the month and what time the kids get picked up. The gift of travel is to think about your life. The prison of travel is that your thoughts about your life remain in the country where you had them.

From “Don’t Spend It All in One Place,” by Taffy Brodesser-Akner for Afar; Photo by Dino Reichmuth

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