Pico Iyer – Why travelers travel

Travel writer and journalist Pico Iyer offers this tidbit to WorldHum.com on why individuals travel:

Travel… guides us toward a better balance of wisdom and compassion—of seeing the world clearly, and yet feeling it truly. For seeing without feeling can obviously be uncaring; while feeling without seeing can be blind. Yet for me the first great joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, and seeing everything I thought I knew in a different light, and from a crooked angle.