Travel can be a kind of monasticism on the move: On the road, we often live more simply, with no more possessions than we can carry, and surrendering ourselves to chance. This is what Camus meant when he said that “what gives value to travel is fear”— disruption, in other words (or emancipation), from circumstance, and all the habits behind which we hide.
—PICO IYER, “WHY WE TRAVEL”
