It's an interesting time for travel for the Colson Center. I'm John Stone Street with the point.

Well, the price of flights nonwithstanding, many are opting now for what social media has dubbed

revenge travel, the chance to get out and make up for time lost during the pandemic.

All of which brings up the question, what's travel good for?

Popular answer is that travels necessary to experience La Dolce Vita or the Sweet Life.

Writing to the Atlantic, one reader described his year overseas this way, I went to Italy, burned out from American corporate pressures, and returned with better boundaries for work and life and an intentionally slower pace of doing things.

Well, good, but travel is no cure for everything that ails us. Ralph Waldo

Emerson famously said travel is a fool's paradise. It's a mistaken belief that internal

restlessness can be escaped by a change of scenery. Our first journeys, he wrote, discover

to us the indifference of places. Travels a way to connect with people and expand our knowledge

of the world.

But as Ecclesiastes warns us, living for life's next high does not eliminate life's unsettling questions. Neither does it take us to the deeper source of life's passing joys.

I'm John Stone Street.