What you expect to see and learn vs. what you really end up seeing and learning is usually different when you go on a journey. As a matter of fact if you know everything that will happen and everything you will experience in advance, what’s the point of going, right?
When my daughters and I went to Europe a few years back, the coolest experiences were ALL things we had no idea were going to happen. They included the Monaco Grand Prix, a bull fight in a roman empire arena in the south of France, a poetry reading in Italian at the Guggenheim piazza in Venice, going to see one of the matrix movies in Germany (in german) and surfers on a river in the middle of Munich. The fun and joy and excitement of coming across those things made the vacation worth while, all by themselves!
Allow for wonder and the unexpected, it’s fun.
Drawing © Marty Coleman
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber
