"I often wonder what I seek when I embark on these trips. There is the pat answer I tell the people I don't know--that I'm interested in seeing a place, learning about its people. But then the trip begins, and the hardship comes, and the hardship is more honest: It tells me that I'm here because I don't have enough patience yet, or humility, or gratitude. So I've told the world that it can do what it wants with me if only, by the end of the trip, I have learned something. A bargain, then. The journey, my teacher."
- Kira Salak from The Best Women's Travel Writing
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