Deep Travel

Travel:  To pass from here to there; to go from one place to another.

Travel need not involve an epic journey - a simple visit to the coffee shop at the end of the street can bring it on.  What travel awakens is a latent, childlike sense of wonder at the world around us.

Nevertheless it is long journeys that bring out the possibilities of Deep Travel most strongly, removing us from our familiar comforts and security, taking us into new situations, alone and vulnerable, our minds open to the world and its sensations, bringing about an enhanced sense of perception.  Such travel can also allow us to rediscover parts of our own selves that are normally obscured by the hum-drum routines of daily life. 

Travel allows us to tap parts of the self that are generally obscured by chatter and routine, and also to realize how subjective our certainties can be.  One of the first things we learn on the road are how provisional and provincial are the things that we imagine to be universal.