Are the Most Challenging Trips Also Fun?

Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 11.16.06 | 2:31 PM ET

The answer, of course, depends on who you ask. In Sunday’s Chicago Tribune, Sophia Dembling offers her take: “[S]ome trips are so challenging, it’s hard to call them ‘fun’ at the time, no matter how rich they may be. Those trips, in a way, improve when they’re over and I’m back home sorting through what I’ve seen, done and learned. Then I’m always glad I made the effort. And make no mistake, it is an effort. Always.”