Reinvention, Escape, Curiosity, Perspective. Why I Travel

Find the Books and Travel Podcast on your favorite podcast app, or the backlist here: https://www.booksandtravel.page/listen/ Some call it wanderlust, an almost uncontrollable desire to travel, sometimes at the expense of common-sense. Others call it ‘fernweh,’ a German word meaning far-sickness, the opposite of homesickness. I also like Jack Reacher’s explanation in Lee Child’s thriller, Never Go Back. “Ninety-nine of us grow up to love the campfire, and one grows up to hate it. Ninety-nine of us grow up to fear the howling wolf, and one grows up to envy it. And I’m that guy.” [Or presumably girl!] I love the Reacher series for the vigilante justice he metes out, a sense of restoring balance to the world, but perhaps I’m also jealous of how Reacher leaves at the end of every book, with only a toothbrush in his pocket … Here are some more reasons why I travel. (1) Reinvention (2)Escape (3)Curiosity and book research (4)Perspective and gratitude Show notes, transcript and images at: https://www.booksandtravel.page/why-i-travel/