Half the fun of travel is the esthetic of lostness.
– Ray Bradbury
American author Ray Bradbury.
We hate to admit it, but we owe our high school English teachers a debt of gratitude. For that’s who first subjected us to American author Ray Bradbury.
Sure, we had to read Fahrenheit 451. There was no escaping it, but then we got to read The Martian Chronicles, I Sing the Body Electric, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. (Okay, some of us never did finish that last one, and never really liked carnivals afterwards.)
At any rate, Bradbury was a master storyteller in a variety of genres. He could capture your imagination and put words to your thoughts with a sentence, as he did with this Favorite Travel Quote. For all of the planning we do, once our boots are on unfamiliar ground, the element of chance takes root. We may think we know where we are going, but it rarely takes much to travel from “you are here” to “where are we?”
That’s okay, though. Some of our favorite travel memories came from being lost. Some of the biggest lessons we’ve learned, the greatest things we’ve seen, the nicest people we’ve met, came from being lost. That’s the beauty of it: the unplannable, unexpected results of getting lost.
About the Photograph
Somewhere in Rome. The directions said the gelateria was down this street. Or that one. Or…the one we just passed? Rome’s Centro Storico is, in some areas, a warren of streets and alleys and dead ends. Turns out, we were only mildly lost. The gelateria was on this street, on the other side of that church, which bisected the narrow lane. What a beautiful church we found, though, tucked in this corner, defending the gelateria from our ravenous appetites, somewhere in Rome. (Photo by TravelLatte)
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