I wake from walking and searching rather deep inside “Ostia Antica” still attempting to locate places in the life time of Augustine there, where he did, or might have done, various activities. And determined to read more on him there then. It is not serious to not consider his relation to the Mithraea there.
And if you traveled “abroad” and came back the same then what was the point of having gone. Those who go to travel, to Europe, for example, to enjoy themselves are just taking their patterns and sleep with them.
Meeting with, conversing with, interacting with complete strangers in a completely new place allows one’s soul to live — perhaps to grow — and develop, and be in ways that the patterns of one’s daily home life do not.
I did not go to Italy and Sicily for seven weeks to come back unchanged, less knowledgeable and insightful, with a happy smile.
Stephen Lapeyrouse . . . Notes Dropped Along the Way 