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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