Travel as Mental Yoga
It may seem odd, given how little travel we do these days, but my wife and I are travel junkies. We definitely notice that our brains feel stretched after being in an unfamiliar place, amongst unfamiliar people, possibly even speaking an unfamiliar language. Indeed, after most of our trips I remark on the Oliver Wendell Holmes quote that “a mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.” (Read on …)