Why is travelling important?

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Some interesting thoughts about history, travelling
politics from conversation with Ahmed Rashid, Journalist at:

http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/peo...shid-con0.html

"How did your parents shape your character, do you think, in retrospect?

I dedicate the Taliban book to my mother because she was an incredibly inquisitive person who paid attention to absolutely everything. She was a very traditional Indian Muslim woman, grew up in British India. But she had incredible curiosity about everything, and while we were kids, she used to take us on these wild trips, even without very much money. We were sleeping in the car, I remember, as kids, traveling and camping in Europe. We drove once from London to Karachi in the sixties with her. She was just a very adventurous person."

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