

Desire, Craving, and Enlightenment on a Train
Typing “Why travel,” into an internet search engine yields a list of lists with titles like “17 Reasons Why Around the World Travel Makes You a Happier Person.” Each of those top-ten lists includes some version of the phrase “you’ll learn about yourself.” When we take a journey, we learn not only about the cultures we are exploring, but something of the vast emotional landscape within ourselves. When I embarked on my most recent trip to Europe, I had forgotten that adage, and