
Then I started to think about the meaning of that phrase, instead. Envisioning that the author of those words might be talking about a world tour, but he could be going someplace, anyplace. different from where he lived. The more I thought the more I realized that any place is a foreign place, simply, or oversimplified, it is not the place where you live, so that makes it foreign. It could be anywhere between the house on the left hand side of yours right the way round the world to the house on the right hand side.

Could it be that appreciation of those small differences is the secret to the greatest reward and not the distance traveled or the exoticness of the location. To me, the answer is yes. When I have time there is nothing more soul satisfying to me that to take the scenic route. It's a route I know well, but there is always something different to see.

And I found myself looking up at a waxing gibbous moonrise in a foreign sky.