WHEN YOU GO, EXPECT A
MASS OF CONTRADICTIONS
The standard cliché about travel is that it’s “broadening.”
I’m not sure this is altogether true. It may suggest too much about the impact of mere tourism on one’s character or one’s view of the world.
But going to new places definitely provides glimpses of how life is experienced in different settings. And those impressions, no matter how shallow and fleeting, at the very least raise questions worth pondering.
My wife, Kathy, and I have just returned from Rome.