WITH LOVE, FROM AFRICA “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart but that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind”- Anthony Bourdain. Every journey is a quest, whether you accept it or not. So why is it that although we are constantly searching for ways to enrich our lives, we turn down opportunities to explore numerous cultures and places that surround us? Be it in our immediate environment, our country, our continent or the world as a whole. Some people, especially in this part of the world, rationalize some choices over the others. Traveling seems like a luxurious activity to most of us and we always find ways to come up with excuses on why we should not go somewhere completely different from what we are used to- even once”. I don’t have