Preparing to return home after more than three weeks of professional and personal international travel, I am reminded first of our privilege to be able to move about the world so freely and second of how much we’ve missed these connections with new places, new friends, and new ideas during the pandemic.
There will be several more posts in the coming days and weeks before I exhaust what I have to say about the things we’ve seen and learned in our visits in Scotland, Norway, and France, but I’ll just end this post with a quote from Pico Iyer that I like to use in my talks.
We don’t travel …in order to move around – you’re traveling in order to be moved. And really what you’re seeing is not just the Grand Canyon or the Great Wall but some moods or intimations or places inside yourself that you never ordinarily see…
More to come…
DJB
Image of Arc de Triomphe by DJB
MORE TO COME... 
Pingback: Observations from…cities, highlands, islands, and fjords | More to Come...
David. Inspiring as always. Thanks
The one great bookshop you might like sometime is the Daunt Bookshop in Hampstead London. Always innovative and helpful guides!!! Geoff Read
Thanks, Geoff. That’s a great suggestion, and I’ll look it up on my next visit to London. Hope you are well. DJB
My friend Ed Quattlebaum sent me the following email message:
(Y)our recent travels—especially your departure from Paris—reminds me of an elderly couple who were musing about being in their eighties. “When one of us dies,” said the husband, “I’m going to Paris.”
Priceless!