I spent about a year and a half traveling through 32 countries, and have now settled in Brazil. I have had many adventures, seen wonderful and horrific things, and broadened my world view in unimaginable ways (and had a really good time doing it).
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. ~Mark Twain