Travel has a way of humbling you long before you even reach your destination.

Sometimes that humility arrives as a breathtaking landscape or a conversation with a stranger who expands your worldview. And sometimes, it arrives in a fluorescent-lit airport bathroom, where you’re standing with a backpack slung over one shoulder, staring at your reflection as if to say, “Wow.” You’re really doing this.
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