“Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of one’s usual setting, the customary routine stripped away like too much wrapping paper, the traveler finds himself reduced to more modest proportion – but also more open to curiosity, to intuition, to love at first sight.” - Nicolas Bouvier, The Way of the World
[Image: Thierry Vernet sur la route d’Ankara, Turquie, 1953. via thegiftsoflife]