I returned to my apartment today hardly recognizing it. Hundreds of miles of driving, hours of hiking, and the majesty of the great outdoors will do that to you.

And it’s hard to convey that to others when you show them pictures of your trip. Photographs of the sights may be beautiful, but they show the fantasized version of the adventure, not the sweat and blood and trials and tribulations.

We are forever changed by our experiences, if we let them do so. Travel creates new dimensions to our reality, that can make home seem a new excitement.