...in many ways. It's taught me how provincial me and my assumptions are. It's expanded my sense of what is possible among human beings and in terms of human kindness (and at very few times its opposite).
And it has shown me a whole other way to live, open, not hemmed in by familiarity, and living according to the principles and challenges I most respect. Best of all, it's helped me see all of life as travel, and as an occasion for writing (in order to make sense of it?). And yet, travel made me aware how lucky i am, to be able to live the life i do... ‘ (Mjos, 2004)