Why we travel

Another post from Joanne –

I’m online this morning looking at ticket sales, hotel prices etc. for my summer trip to San Francisco to see the King Tut exhibit at the DeYoung Museum. After my winter trip to Egypt, I’m so excited!
A good friend who lives in the Bay Area asked, “Why ever are you coming HERE when you live in paradise! We work all year to come up to Mount Shasta.”
…and then I opened an email with a quote that explains it all:
Well known travel writer Pico Iyer suggests that we travel “…initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again – to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”
We in Siskiyou County are proud and delighted to be a part of “slowing your time down” and helping you to “fall in love once more”.
Hope we’ll see you this summer.
Joanne Steele
Siskiyou County Tourism Director