Andrew Hyde lives in Boulder, Colorado and travels frequently.

You Travel To Be Wrong

From ‘Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error‘

The desire to experience this kind of wrongness is seldom the explicit reason people engage in recreational travel, and it’s certainly not the only reason. (We also set out to visit friends, brush up on our Portuguese, see the Great Barrier Reef.) But it is often the implicit one. Sometimes, we want to be the toddler in Times Square. We travel to feel like a kid again: because we hope to experience the world as new, and because we believe the best way to learn about it is to play in it.

That is the most concise defense of travel I’ve ever seen.

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3 responses to “You Travel To Be Wrong”

  1. Amy C (Expand Outdoors) Avatar
    Amy C (Expand Outdoors)

    Andrew – I especially love this part of the quote. “We travel to feel like a kid again: because we hope to experience the world as new, and because we believe the best way to learn about it is to play in it.”

    Thanks for sharing. 🙂

  2. Catherine Taylor Avatar
    Catherine Taylor

    I love this! 🙂 Sometimes I’ve found myself wondering whether travel is frivolous, while intuitively feeling that it isn’t – this really helps.

  3. DeliciouslyOrganic Avatar
    DeliciouslyOrganic

    Your photo says it all. “We hope to experience the world as new.” I want to dive into that photo, go rafting and explore. 

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