Recalling Afghanistan and a Father’s Wanderlust
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 05.24.07 | 8:36 AM ET
When he was just 14, Scott Anderson embarked on a nearly yearlong journey through Europe and Asia with his father in a VW bus. In Afghanistan, the two took a detour up a remote, bumpy road to a place called Band-i-Amir. His father wasn’t sure the detour was a good idea, but the younger Anderson insisted the pair go. He recalls the trip In a beautifully written essay in the latest issue of National Geographic Adventure. “I think my desire to go to Band-i-Amir had less to do with actually seeing the lakes or with whatever it was I imagined I might find there, than it was a symptom of how I’d changed since reaching Afghanistan,” he writes. “The land had roused a fascination in me, an engagement with my surroundings. On this trip, I was no longer merely along for the ride. For the first time, I was pointing the way, leading my father.”
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
