Unrealistic fantasies about alternate existences are one of the joys of travel

Blog – Rolf Potts
18/02/2019
Unrealistic fantasies about alternate existences are one of the joys of travel

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Travel has a way of making you imagine yourself living alternate existences. Sometimes these daydreams are the result of genuine cross-cultural empathy. Just as often, however, they are pure fantasy. I saw this little island on the high-speed ferry to the Mentawai Archipelago from the Sumatran mainland. It seemed perfect somehow, with its white-sand beach,…

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