Wonderful ad from Away in Sunday’s New York Times from July 4th, 2021.

People who travel know what it's like to not belong.

They're the ones making a choice to be different. Taking strange trains, saying wrong things. Experiencing the world on someone else's terms.

And then, they come back.

Less afraid of what they don't understand, and more empathetic to everything around them.

We could use a few more people like that.

So this 4th of July, think about leaving home.

It's a good way to love a country.