"Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel's immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way."
Profile pic: March 2008. On the Camino to Santiago, as a pilgrim, on foot. I am in Getaria (Euskadi), with Juan Sebastian Elcano, the first man on earth to circumnavigate the world (Magellan died in Mactan Island in the hands of a local chief).