Why We Travel

“It is as though we are seeing our
imagination bettered, turned into something real and presented directly to us. In this case I was driving down what I then considered to be a road more beautiful than I could imagine, a road so beautiful in fact that it could only be a figment of the imagination. Yet there it was. It is when we pass through these solid swathes of real, perfect imagination, that we become perfectly content, not only because these scenes are so wonderful to behold, but also because we have finally fulfilled our reason for travel, and entirely escaped the ordinary world for a while.”

Ben Curtis, Errant in Iberia, available at NotesfromSpain.com

I bought this book today (ebook) and have read nearly all of it. A great, human, book.