“Visiting a new town is like having a conversation. Places ask questions of you just as searchingly as you question them. And, as in any conversation, it helps to listen with an open mind, so you can be led somewhere unexpected. The more you leave assumptions at home, I've found, the better you can hear whatever it is that a destination is trying to say to you.” TryingMindHelpingHomeMotivationalAsksFoundConversationTownsAssumptionUnexpectedDestinationOpen MindVisiting Author:Pico Iyer
“Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy. ... The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped like a rat in a drainpipe.” HomeJoyPleasureTrappedRatsHospitalityVisitingVisitorsSociabilityAmbivalent Author:Barbara Holland