Thoughts on Travel

Upon returning, I wrote down a few thoughts I had about traveling: 

Travel should be eye-opening. Noting differences in France and in Italy (in city lay-outs, history, art, the way of speaking and topics of conversation, and more) makes me see Auburn, myself, and Americans as a whole more clearly, whereas before I just didn't think about it. 

How can you think about how things are, about what your way of life really consists of, if that is all you know--unless you can either imagine other ways of life-- OR --(for less brain work) experience a completely foreign way of living?
You realize, when you're uncomfortable in some way, what it is that you usually take for granted. 

When you learn about another place and its history, it makes you think about that of your own home. You meet people who talk of things that you know nothing about, yet who know nothing about what you would normally talk about. And you realize there is so much to learn...