On Valentine’s Day, Dancing with the Romance of Possibility
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 02.14.02 | 2:42 PM ET
Lonely Planet Travel Editor Don George’s weekly column is always a pleasure to read, and this week’s is no different. In honor of Valentine’s Day, George meditates on the romance of travel, or more accurately, as he puts it, “the romance of possibility.” George recalls past travels, including a trip to Venice, when, while walking down a cobbled alley, “I feel torn out of this century. My heart pounds in my ears. I have no idea what awaits, who I will meet, around the corner.” That sense of possibility is evident, too, he writes, in the travel-journalism workshop he now teaches: “Above the discussions of structural strategies and stylistic techniques, this romance hangs, unnamed but palpable, in the classroom air.”
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
