Reflections From a Globetrotting 9-Year-Old
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 09.20.04 | 11:22 PM ET
Alice DuBois recently discovered the hardback journal she kept as a 9-year-old touring Italy with her parents. In an eloquent travel essay in Sunday’s New York Times, she reflects on the entries she made during that early trip. One highlight from her visit to the Uffizi: “Italy’s greatest art collection seems to have merited about eight minutes of my attention. The rest of the day’s entry consists of an elaborate and self-satisfied explanation of how I managed to eat a chocolate bar inside the museum without getting caught by the security guard. Every time I read this portion of the journal, I wince with embarrassment. Did I have to be so smug about my lack of interest?”
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
