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> Words to blow ones minds, history that brings tears with a few simple footsteps...

These are exactly the kinds of faux profundities I used to hear — and say! — traveling in youth hostels in my late teens.

It’s jarring to see them coming from someone ostensibly past forty.



You probably shouldn't have stopped travelling.


I didn’t. My traveling companions are just a little wiser and more mature, now.




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