Tell me about that trip that changed your life... and I'll tell you how you're lying to yourself.
So claims a recent essay in The New Yorker titled The Case Against Travel. In it, author Agnes Callard makes some pretty bold and sweeping assertions, including that travel "turns us into the worst version of ourselves while convincing us that we’re at our best."
Visiting a new place doesn't change the traveler, Callard argues, rather, the traveler changes the place.
While there's certainly a nugget of unpleasant truth in that, the idea that travel simply cannot change you is something both Katy and Tiffany know from experience to be untrue. We discuss and debate the article's points and come away with our own conclusions.
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Episode 530: Revisiting a Long-Lost Place
Episode 529: Going Native, Part 2
Episode 528: Going Native
Episode 527: Moving to Rome—Sight Unseen (with Brie Ripley)
Episode 526: An Unbelievable Discovery in Rome!
Episode 525: A Question of Season
Episode 524: What if New Year's Were in March?
Episode 523: Legacy and Loss (with Kaila Merrill)
Episode 522: The Case Against Travel, Part 2
Episode 521: Road Trips (with John Roderick)
Episode 519: Martyr! (with Kaveh Akbar)
Episode 518: The Limitations of Language
Episode 517: Could You Miss Discovering Your Passion?
Episode 516: Post-Covid Social Woes
Episode 515: The Story Behind the Crow Gifts Photo
Episode 514: Did We Keep our New Year's Resolutions?
Episode 513: One Last Gift
Episode 512: Operator (A Radio play by Matthew P. Woerner)
Episode 511: Is the Place You Love as Good as You Think?
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