Phuket, or Other Places
President Thomas Jefferson once cautioned his nephew against roaming. “Traveling makes men wiser, but less happy,” he wrote in a letter. “When men of a sober age travel, they gather knowledge, which they may apply usefully for their country, but they are subject ever after to recollections mixed with regret–their affections weakened by being extended over more objects, and they learn new habits which cannot be gratified when they return home.”
