How to travel brilliantly: Develop these five senses

I use brilliant to refer to a style of travel in the sense that a jeweller uses it to describe a gem. A gem is a precious stone cut to reveal both the beauty inside as well as to refract the light around it. Travel takes the rough gem that is each of us in our everyday, location-bound lives and fashions us into something brilliant. Brilliant travel is journeying with imagination, humility, and humor. It is carrying a sense of history and common humanity to distant places.

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