One of the great joys of travel is going to places where history has happened. The Pyramids, Machu Pichu, Abraham Lincoln’s home in Springfield, Illinois, the Capitol building in Washington, etc. Seeing places like these can help you better understand history, as well as giving you a personal connection to events in the past.
But if you are lucky, travel can also take you to places where things are happening now or may happen in the future. Seeing such places can make current events more interesting and personal and maybe even more understandable. We were lucky enough to be in West Berlin and East Germany in 1979 and 1982, so when the protests arose and the Wall came down in 1989, we had an appreciation of what was happening that we might not have otherwise had.
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