It's the tenth anniversary of her original world tour, so she decided to leave her job and make another grand tour. It won't be the same for she'll go to many places that she hasn't been before. And this time she won't be sticking to surface travel — after all, she's already done that, and it's expensive and time-consuming. I feel some anxiety about Marie being so far away, and the world has changed since she made her world tour in 2001. Of course, there was a huge change in 2001, at least as far as our perception as Americans of how other cultures feel about us. She was in Zanzibar on 9/11 and saw the shocking news in an internet cafe. You can read about this in her book or in her online journal.
And of course, now the internet and other technologies have contributed to change in far-away places, and we see regimes changing so suddenly that political stability seems to be a myth. This is not the time I'd choose to travel the world. But of course, I am older and in a settled stage of life. So have your adventures while you are young enough to relish them. Godspeed!
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