Seven Lessons From the Road
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 01.15.03 | 11:25 AM ET
What do travelers learn when they journey abroad? In a recent column Dallas Morning News Travel Editor Larry Bleiberg, recalls Arthur Frommer’s seven top lessons. At times like these, when so many Americans are shying away from trips abroad, the lessons are “the reasons we must set aside our doubts and go see the world,” Bleiberg writes. Our favorite: lesson seven. Travel teaches humility. “You become a quieter American as a result of travel,” Frommer says, “and in my opinion a smarter and even, perhaps, a more-thoughtful one.” We like that.