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“What a pleasure it must be to feel the water pour over your tiny body. What a joy to test its power and weight against your tiny bird bones.”

“…it is safe to say that every Indian woman learns early to put on a stone face while walking through crowded streescapes.”

“It is as if our everyday life is a pointless exercise and only when we travel do we reach our full potential…. Travel has been sold to us as the ultimate horizon-expanding, mind-broadening, self-improvement experience.”

“There is an injustice here at the level of human rights, but it is even more stark when we consider how free trade is thrust down the throats of poor countries, while free movement is so blithely denied.”

“It is a fundamental paradox of visa regimes that the poorer your nation is, the more you have to pay to obtain a visa, while the citizens of wealthy nations pay less or nothing at all.”

the story of her dad’s opinion on travel was amazing.
“Come visit New York in the spring “but the spring is when the mango tree is in bloom and fruit falls by the bucketful.”
“Even the Grand Canyon is not the Grand Canyon”
“There’s only one place in the world I can get a good nights sleep”
Otherwise so far it’s about the white/passport privilege of getting to travel without so much paperwork.