Tony Hiss Talks ‘Deep Travel’

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  11.17.10 | 1:13 PM ET

The former New Yorker staffer and author of In Motion: The Experience of Travel talks with the Book Bench about what he calls “deep travel.” Here’s Hiss:

Deep Travel is an exhilarating state of mind that travel can evoke, when everything seems suddenly fresh, vivid, intensely interesting, and memorable. Because you focus on what you’re looking at and listening to, Deep Travel is like waking up while already awake; things have a way of seeming emphasized, underlined. Travel can sometimes summon this kind of awareness automatically—we can all remember times when the world came alive unexpectedly—but we can also bring it to vibrant life voluntarily.

He goes on to talk about how to call up and retain that feeling even in more familiar settings. It’s worth a read.


Eva Holland is co-editor of World Hum. She is a former associate editor at Up Here and Up Here Business magazines, and a contributor to Vela. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.


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