Mark Twain had this to say about travel: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” What this means is that if we spend all our life in the same place doing the same things with the same people, we tend to see nothing but differences between us and people from other parts of the country and other parts of the world. On the other hand, travel opens our eyes and broadens our horizons. The more we travel, instead of noticing differences, we begin to see and appreciate all the wonderful things we have in common with people everywhere.
