In Alain de Bottons engaging book, The Art of Travel, he distinguishes between the anticipation and recollection of travel versus the reality of actually traveling.When we anticipate, we study travel brochures and create in our imagination all sorts of exotic adventures, lying ahead of us. Once really there, we photograph the Eiffel Tower with our friends or family, their arms slung over one anothers shoulders and grinning into the camera. That forms the recollection, t…

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