The Subtle Ways Travel Changes Our Habits: A Brief Reminiscence on Italy from the Perspective of a Coffee Snob

Although we may hope that travel changes us in grand ways, the smaller, subtler ways can surprisingly be more profound…and sometimes snobbish.

Overview of the city of Florence, Italy. Photo by Heidi Kaden on Unsplash

Travel doesn’t always change us but sometimes it does. Sometimes it changes us in grand ways like Mesa Verde National Park did for me. A few weeks ago I wrote about how my travels in Colorado inspired me to become an archaeologist. And then there are small habits and behaviors we f…