A great quote I ripped off the wall from one of my friends on facebook. It speaks volumes to the experience of travelling...
"Travelling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things -- air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky -- all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it."
-- Cesare Pavese
Traveling brings out the best lowest common denominator in all of us. You will never really know what you are capable of until you are a stranger in a strange land. The boundaries of your personal comfort zone will be extended... new friendships and alliances will be forged with people you never thought you could trust... and your overall perception of what is risky will change dramatically.