Life is a Trip: The Transformative Magic of Travel

(Spirituality & Health, 2010)
Life is a Trip

A thoughtful and sensitive world wanderer who’s been around the planet and back, author Judith Fein’s new book is a collection of moving personal tales detailing the ways in which her journeys have changed her perception of life and its meaning. Sharing her experiences with an honesty that includes tales of the occasional unintended cultural faux pas, she illustrates how keeping an open mind and an open heart can have life-altering benefits. In the process, Fein illustrates how travel can do the same for everyone. Meeting people face to face, and dipping our toes into their cultures, beliefs, lifestyles, languages, and healing traditions, can be a great way to erase stereotypes and learn to celebrate the amazing diversity that’s available to all of us, whether we’re traveling to the other side of our home state, a specific neighborhood in the city where we live, or to a remote village that’s only accessible via elephant or a leaky boat. It’s truly the journey that matters, after all.

Debra Bokur