This is an unpublished essay for my travelogue, Why I Travel. The book was published by MPH Publishing in 2017.

“I want to trek the Himalayas,” I told Adi one day over breakfast. He regarded me with contemplation, as he always did when I suggested random activities out of the blue. We had both come from the heels of Ben Stiller’s latest flick, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, the fictional tale of TIME Magazine’s photo editor who after decades of dead-end employment, embarks on an adventu...