How to Travel by The School of Life

"...one of our central motives for travelling is a desire to put the regrettable aspects of the past behind us...one of the most effective ways of achieving a feeling of distance from follies, vanity and sinfulness is to introduce something very large -- like the experience of a month-long journey across a desert or a mountain range...If inner change is difficult, then we may need a commensurately difficult outer journey to goad and inspire us."