Bypassing Blockages

The benefits of traveling are myriad, and I’m an enthusiastic proponent of visiting even the nearby, the perceptually humdrum, the everyday and mundane-seeming because although many of us have been sold on the idea that travel needs to be exotic and expensive, it needn’t be either of those things to be valuable and fulfilling.

Taking a quick drive or bus-ride to the next town over can be just as enriching as hopping an international border, and visiting a park or hole-in-the-wall bar can be j...