I suppose I am attracted to travel for the kind of education it provides. It is experiential and interactive by nature with lessons held in the informal classroom of the world and taught by its many people. I love the unforeseen knowledge it imparts, whether structured in a museum, or through your local taxi driver as he explains life in his home town. Travel provides important new lenses through which to view the place you call home, and ultimately, yourself. It forces you to contemplate things you never would have had you not ventured out your back door into the unknown. It’s these kinds of experiential learnings that are sure never to leave you - you take them with you and they unexpectedly inform areas of your life you would never associate with travel. Sometimes something experienced while traveling that seemed uneventful at the time turns out to provide an important lesson years later.