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The Hope of Travel and All We Say About It

The Hope of Travel and All We Say About It

What are we looking to find “out there” that we can’t seem to find right here, right now?

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Justin S. Bailey
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“I have finished my Travells, and I am now transcribing them; they are admirable things, and will wonderfully mend the world.”[1]

-Johnathan Swift to his friend Charles Ford, August 14, 1725

Why do we often find ourselves dreaming of elsewhere? For some of us, our restlessness compels us to wander. We can’t stand the idea of “…

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