I was looking over some photos of the past year or so and found this one from that weekend in Chicago. What is it about going anywhere and everywhere that is so cool? I just love the unexpected finds, the new food, the need to be navigating and continually thinking of what to do next. There is nothing to be taken for granted. There is nothing that resembles a routine. All you are expected to do is to show up, be curious and pay attention.

Hmmmm…I think that’s what I love best about travel. It reminds you how to approach life.

Kind of like the line I just read in The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery.

“Oh my gosh, I thought, does this mean that this is how we must live our lives? Constantly poised between beauty and death, between movement and its disappearance? Maybe that’s what being alive is all about: so we can track down those moments that are dying.”