To travel

We long to travel.  To explore a sight unseen, embrace the unfamiliar.  What draws us to it, I am not quite sure.  Perhaps to be in a place that you do not know allows a certain freedom that we long for - in unfamiliarity there are no norms or favorite spots or schedules.  If critical thinking is connecting the dots between things, a joy of travel - and exploring the unknown - might be a way of identifying new dots of which you can later connect a thread. 

.A Jose Andres restaurant, two charming dining rooms, a new neighborhood, history, an expansive evening of freedom.   A weekend in DC. 

“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”  - Pico Iyer