The Art and Psychology of Divorce Travel
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 11.18.02 | 7:31 PM ET
In the midst of an ugly divorce 10 years ago, Susan Spano did what a lot of people in her position do: she traveled. Off she went to Europe, to walk by the Ligurian Sea and grieve before the Colosseum.
“Psychologically motivated trips like these are, in a sense, gambles with life,” she writes in a thoughtful column in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times. “The transition or crisis makes people more willing to free themselves from routine, feel in a heightened way or make life changes based on events on the road. They are my favorite kinds of trips.”