Thread by @HoarseWisperer

One of the most fun things about this brief weekend getaway with my son is teaching him how to travel.

Not how to get from place to place or how to navigate a hotel, a city, etc.

How to be ‘away’.

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There’s a difference between ‘visiting’ and ‘traveling’.

Visiting is skimming the surface but barely alighting.

Visiting is to be ‘in a place’ conscious or not being ‘of a place’.

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Traveling is to be ‘of the world’. Settled despite your movement. At home being away.

Traveling is the art of being at ease despite foreignness.

As if you haven’t left your zone of comfort; your zone of comfort just has no boundary.

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Traveling is focusing on the little place that must be found; the meal that must be eaten; the things not mentioned in the guidebook.

Traveling is rest in motion.

A rejuvenating calm as scenes pass outside the train window.

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I have always been at home on the road.

I love to travel. Love it.

The way you inhabit places that are not your own determines whether you are a traveler or a visitor.

I want my son to graduate from his childhood as a traveler. The world awaits. I want him to be at home in it.

I’ve already been out to get coffee.

My son is still fast asleep in the other bed.

He never sleeps this late. Dark curtains and a comfortable bed will do that for you though.

Once he’s up, we’re heading out to breakfast. He picked the place.

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There’s allegedly some amazing french toast involved.

It’s a bit out of the way. We’ll have to find it.

That’s kinda the point though.

Finding it.

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