Last Name 1 Name Professor Amy Schacht USEM 101 October 19, 2015 Travel In “Why I Travel” by Molly Sprayregen the view on traveling is that it is not about simply experiencing another culture, but about experiencing something new about oneself. When traveling it is a time to learn and try new things; it is about grasping the full idea on how little we all really know about the world we live in. Traveling teaches people how each and every person has a lot to offer others, and it helps people appreciate home and differentiate between what is important and what is not. A benefit would be on how Molly states how traveling helps you form a gut instinct on who you can trust, even if it was learned after trusting the wrong people along the way which was a cost to traveling. Another important point Molly made was on how anything that is worth doing in life tends to be accompanied by pain, whether it is physical or emotional. On another note, she also stated how it is from that pain, that we get a sense of joy. Then, in the second article about Deep Travel, it is on an interview with Tony Hiss. He states how Deep Travel is a state of mind in which you channel the feeling you get from traveling and use it to broaden our lives. It is a talent in which we are all born with and can easily access. From what I read, Tony is leaning more towards the fact that people do not need to travel to get a feeling of relaxation and so on. He states that reading can evoke a similar state of mind. From what he wrote the benefit would be that there would be no need to really travel anywhere, but a cost would be that you would not be experiencing anything new. Overall, traveling is an exhilarating thing to do, but it can easily be done from home. Deep Travel · You can get the same feeling from home. · Don’t experience, so much as thinking, reading, and remembering. · A talent. · A state of mind. · You can get a feeling of exhilaration from thought and feeling. “Why I Travel” · Traveling from place is the best way to get the full experience. · You learn about yourself, not just culture. · Something best done, not learned. · Helps form a gut instinct. · Helps clear what is really important, and appreciate home. · Both value traveling. · Life is simple. · You learn. · Teach what we do not know of the world. Why I Travel by Molly Sprayregen Recent graduate, University of Pennsylvania A few summers ago, my family took a trip to Africa. We kissed giraffes in Kenya, hiked into Rwanda's dense rainforest to see the mountain gorillas, and followed the migration through Tanzania's Serengeti. In those seventeen days, I fell in love with Africa, both the areas populated by wildlife and by humans. I have never stopped searching for ways to return. Just as we took off on our flight home from Tanzania, the final stop on our three-nation journey, our captain's voice came over the loudspeaker: "Ladies and gentleman, this is your captain speaking, if you look out your window t ...

1. Last Name 1
Name
Professor Amy Schacht
USEM 101
October 19, 2015
Travel
In “Why I Travel” by Molly Sprayregen the view on
traveling is that it is not about simply experiencing another
culture, but about experiencing something new about oneself.
When traveling it is a time to learn and try new things; it is
about grasping the full idea on how little we all really know
about the world we live in. Traveling teaches people how each
and every person has a lot to offer others, and it helps people
appreciate home and differentiate between what is important
and what is not. A benefit would be on how Molly states how
traveling helps you form a gut instinct on who you can trust,
even if it was learned after trusting the wrong people along the
way which was a cost to traveling. Another important point
Molly made was on how anything that is worth doing in life
tends to be accompanied by pain, whether it is physical or
emotional. On another note, she also stated how it is from that
pain, that we get a sense of joy.
Then, in the second article about Deep Travel, it is on an
interview with Tony Hiss. He states how Deep Travel is a state
of mind in which you channel the feeling you get from traveling
and use it to broaden our lives. It is a talent in which we are all
born with and can easily access. From what I read, Tony is
leaning more towards the fact that people do not need to travel
to get a feeling of relaxation and so on. He states that reading
can evoke a similar state of mind. From what he wrote the
benefit would be that there would be no need to really travel

2. anywhere, but a cost would be that you would not be
experiencing anything new. Overall, traveling is an exhilarating
thing to do, but it can easily be done from home.
Deep Travel
· You can get the same feeling from home.
· Don’t experience, so much as thinking, reading, and
remembering.
· A talent.
· A state of mind.
· You can get a feeling of exhilaration from thought and feeling.
“Why I Travel”
· Traveling from place is the best way to get the full experience.
· You learn about yourself, not just culture.
· Something best done, not learned.
· Helps form a gut instinct.
· Helps clear what is really important, and appreciate home.
· Both value traveling.
· Life is simple.
· You learn.
· Teach what we do not know of the world.
Why I Travel by Molly Sprayregen
Recent graduate, University of Pennsylvania
A few summers ago, my family took a trip to Africa. We kissed
giraffes in Kenya, hiked into Rwanda's dense rainforest to see
the mountain gorillas, and followed the migration through
Tanzania's Serengeti. In those seventeen days, I fell in love with
Africa, both the areas populated by wildlife and by humans. I
have never stopped searching for ways to return.

3. Just as we took off on our flight home from Tanzania, the final
stop on our three-nation journey, our captain's voice came over
the loudspeaker: "Ladies and gentleman, this is your captain
speaking, if you look out your window to your right you will
see the peak of Mt. Kilimanjaro."
I happened to be in a window seat, and when I turned my head,
a colossal mountaintop erupted from a thick bed of clouds, her
peak almost level with my high-flying eyes. Her body was
invisible, shrouded in white fluff, but that peak stood so tall and
vast as to be beyond comparison to any image of a natural or
manmade object I can conjure. Reigning alone over the clouds,
surrounded by no other mountains, her immensity was even
more prominent. That was the first time I truly understood why
people call mountains majestic.
I turned to my dad, the fellow adventurer in the family, who
was leaning over me to see. "We're climbing that," I told him,
and two years later, I am packing up my duffel to head back and
make the climb.
I have traveled to so many places in so many forms -- whether I
am backpacking abroad with friends for a few weeks, with my
family for winter vacation, or studying in a different country for
a few months. Sometimes, I travel to see things, and sometimes
I travel to do things. But I always travel to learn. For me, travel
is not only about experiencing other cultures, it is about
experiencing one's self in an entirely new context. In a new
world, surrounded by unfamiliar people and customs, I always
discover strengths and weaknesses I never new I had.
The more I interact with those who don't speak my language --
whether that is the language of my tongue or the language of my
actions -- the less I fear doing so. Traveling has shown me how
much every single person in this world has to offer every single
other person. Everyone has a story and a set of valuable skills.
Listening to any person's unique life path will undoubtedly add
something to yours. Through travel I have learned to be open to
discovering what lies behind people's facades, whether I am
speaking with a coworker or classmate or I am sitting on a

4. crowded bus in Quito.
As a traveler, I have learned to never make the mistake of
thinking that I have "integrated" into a new culture. I can never
claim that, after a few days or weeks or months in a foreign
place, I now "understand" its people. In fact, I claim the
contrary. More than anything, travel has taught me how much
about this world I do not understand. Knowledge of my own
ignorance keeps me open and curious. It prevents me from
drawing conclusions and creating generalizations.
Traveling throughout my youth has taught me responsibility,
problem solving, and flexibility in a way nothing else could.
There is nothing that will help you grow up quite like scouring
Madrid for a friend's lost wallet or sleeping in an Ecuadorian
bus station or wandering the alleyways of Marrakech attempting
to find a hostel that is both safe and free of bed bugs as your
friend spends the day scratching the little red bumps
ornamenting his arms.
Tackling challenges in a foreign country forces you to be
stronger than you'd have to be at home because with the barriers
of language and custom, everything is that much harder. It helps
you form that gut instinct. The tensing in my stomach I feel
when I sense a person is not trustworthy came, unfortunately,
from trusting the wrong people. But I am grateful even for my
wrong decisions because from them I have learned to make right
ones.
I travel to see the world, but I also travel to see myself, to try
and decipher where I fall in the broader framework of humanity.
I travel to figure out what is truly important, and I travel to
appreciate home. As much as I love to leave, I equally love
returning to my comfort zones. Repeatedly leaving always
makes me realize how much I love being home.
Now, I will return to Tanzania to climb to the roof of Africa. It
is not a journey, I imagine, during which I will meet many
people, save those guiding my trip, and it is not a journey
during which I will experience the true Tanzanian culture.
This, more than anything, will be an inner journey, a battle

5. between my physical and emotional strengths. Mt. Kilimanjaro
is 19,341 feet tall -- just over thirteen Sears Towers stacked on
top of each other. After fifteen thousand feet, every pound that
clings to my body -- whether it's that extra layer of fat I can't
seem to shake or the backpack on my back -- will feel like ten. I
will feel nauseous, achy, and short of breath. I will have no
appetite and yet my guide will require me to consume thousands
of calories. The days will be sweltering and the nights will be
frozen, and on summit day we will hike for over thirteen hours.
I don't yet know what I will learn from this experience. I know
there will be new pieces of myself I bring home and other
pieces that I leave behind. I could make predictions, but I tend
to be wrong about these things. I find it's best not to have the
experience already played out in my head, but rather to let the
experience sweep me away, to throw myself completely into it
and let it push me down and toss me from side to side.
When I tell people about the grueling mental and physical
demands this trip will throw at me, they always ask me why.
Why would I possibly want to put my body through that? What
is the draw of standing up there?
For a while I couldn't think of way to explain, and then I
thought about training for a marathon, working long hours for a
promotion, writing a novel, or even having a child. Anything
worth doing is accompanied by pain, isn't it? The things we
want are almost always accompanied by either physical or
emotional difficulties, and it is often that pain that makes the
joy so joyous in the end.
Now, if you bring up this wildly clichéd and idealistic
viewpoint of mine when I'm at 17,000 feet, alternating between
shivering and sweating, panting like dog, dripping with mud and
more or less crawling up the trail, I'll probably conjure the
small amount of oxygen I have left in my lungs to shout some
sort of profanity in your face. It's easy for me to sit down here
at sea level and talk about how much the pain will be worth it.
But one thing is for sure: even if I am miserable, even if I am
crawling across icy ridges at a snail's pace, I will keep going.

6. But to be truly honest, I don't really know what draws me to
that mountain. Sure, anything worth doing has pain, but why is
making it to the top worth doing? I can't explain why I saw the
floating peak in the sky and knew I had to climb to it. What I do
know is that the resilience I have learned from my travels will
help me reach the top. Now, when people ask me why I am so
drawn to make the climb, all I can think to say is: "well, it's
there, so how can I not?"
NOVEMBER 14, 2010, The New Yorker
The Exchange: Tony Hiss on Deep Travel
Interview and article by Sally Law
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· Think of that feeling you have when you’re on a truly great
vacation: your stress levels drop, trivial concerns reveal
themselves to be just that, and you feel—you know—that life’s
purpose is deeper and simpler than what you’d believed before.
Now think of how you feel standing at the baggage claim once
you’ve returned home. Bummer, right?
With “In Motion: The Experience of Travel,” Tony Hiss, a
former staff writer for The New Yorker, insists that we can
channel that feeling of interconnectedness and heightened
experience—he calls it Deep Travel, caps and all—and use it to
broaden our everyday life. Hiss kindly took the time to chat
with the Book Bench over e-mail; an edited version of our
exchange appears below.
Can you explain the basic idea behind Deep Travel? 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,

7. 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. It helps to know that Deep Travel is a
talent we’re born with; its structure is built into each person’s
mental architecture—and has been, seemingly, for about two
million years, when early humans started walking exclusively
upright, and became travellers, slowly leaving Africa to people
the world.
How can someone tap into Deep Travel at will? Imagine
you’re on a treasure hunt, but all you know about the next clue
is that it will reveal itself within the next three minutes. Your
best hope of finding it before anyone else does is to pay close
attention to anything and everything around you for the next
two hundred and forty seconds.
So Deep Travel can work in a familiar setting? No place,
however well we know it, stays exactly the same from day to
day, or even from hour to hour—there are always different
combinations of people present, or different plays of light and
shadow. The most famous examples of this are the more than
thirty canvases Monet painted of the facade of Rouen cathedral
in the eighteen-nineties. Same church, even the same
viewpoint—he had rented a room across the street. But each one
astonishingly different; sometimes the church looks brooding,
ancient, gray-brown, cavernous, almost collapsing on itself.
Other times it looks robust, sparkling, brand new, almost too
brightly white to look at head-on.
In a well-known place, it’s also a matter of remembering (at
least for the moment) how much more we could find out about
things we’ve seen and used a thousand times before, such as, for
instance, a sidewalk. What is it that makes us feel safe and even
looked after, simply because we’re walking along a narrow
ribbon of concrete wall turned sideways and laid horizontally
across the ground? How different would this street feel—how
would it sound—if this sidewalk were, instead, a dirt path or
cobblestones?

8. What are some ways of retaining the feeling of profound
meaning brought on by Deep Travel after a journey is over?
After a trip there is a normal process of memory collapse—but
memories are not actually lost, merely filed. Deep Travel
memories can in fact be retrieved quite easily, often by simply
asking yourself a question about some aspect of a day or a
moment that seemed flooded with meaning. How did the air feel
when we got out of the car after that long drive to X? What
were the first sounds we heard that magical Sunday in Y? Why
did the moon look so large that night in Z?
Do you feel there are travel writers who truly capture this
feeling? Two of my all-time favorites are Tahir Shah, now
forty-six, who deliberately sets off on epic, swashbuckling
adventures to remote areas, like the jungles of Peru or the
mountains of Ethiopia, and Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, now
ninety-five and still writing, who as a teen-ager quietly walked
the length of Europe, open and alive to and fascinated by
everything and everyone who came his way. What makes
Fermor’s long-ago trip even more poignant today is that he
began his trip in 1933, shortly before so much of what he
encountered and brings so gloriously to life was obliterated
forever.
Most good and I would say all great travel writers have opened
themselves up to a Deep Travel awareness—that’s what
frequently makes their writing so compelling. Some travel
writers seem so permanently imbued with a Deep Travel
sensibility that just reading their books can evoke a similar state
of mind, even in the armchair-bound.
USem 101 Navigating the World: A Sense of Wonder
Assignment #1 “Why I Travel”/ “Deep Travel” Reading,
Annotation & Analysis
Due: Tuesday, April 5, 2016, MLA Format,

9. proofread*, printed and in class
Points: up to 20
*all students must proofread; non-native speakers should have it
checked by a nativespeaker
First: Read through these questions, then read and annotate
both texts (article and interview).
Annotation: write/highlight on the article/paper itself
1. If the authors were sitting here, what would you ask them?
(Clarify? Prove? Curious?) Write the questions in the margins.
Ask at least three per author.
2. Find valuable claims (asserted statements), circle them,
then underline the evidence supporting them. What does each
author believe to be true, and what examples does each use to
prove it?
3. Can you find a personal connection to a section of their
views on traveling? Highlight it and write your thoughts in the
margins. You can agree or disagree, apply to your life, or
compare to another story. Make at least two (2) connections per
article.
Write: Type up a paper in MLA format (see text or Moodle for
instructions), proofread and print.
1. In two (2) strong (7-9 sentences) paragraphs, define each
author’s view on traveling. What benefits does each receive?
What costs?
2. Create a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting the two.
(Word, Insert, Smart Art should have one. Or, Draw might
work. I know you’ll figure it out.) In the middle, put what they
have in common.

10. Last: staple all pages together with this sheet on the bottom.