![The [travel] writer, looking back at the journey from a distance of a year or two (or three), is a different character from the hapless character who undertook the trip: wise after the event, with the leisure to tease out meanings from the experience that the distracted traveler never had, and often impatient with his alter ego's blinkered and unsatisfactory version of things.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-travel-writer-looking-back-at-the-journey-from-a-distance-of-a-year-or-two.jpg)
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