My first trip abroad helped me appreciate home
by A. Trevor Sutton
Oct 03, 2023
3 minutes
Decades ago, an older friend was so certain that I needed the transformative influence of travel that she paid for my passport application fee. Alas, becoming a better person would have to wait, because I was a broke seminary student and the passport went unused.
My friend was not the only one who believed in the notion of enlightenment through travel; many respected authors have lauded travel as a path to betterment. In “The Innocents Abroad,” Mark Twain
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