Living a Dream

My brother just went to Yosemite and he is about to experience a feeling that people who go on great trips get. It's the same feeling we got when we returned from living in Italy, or got back from our anniversary trip to Iceland. Everyone wants to know - and lots of them genuinely  want to know it, too - what was it like? What were your favorite parts? Was it over/under/properly rated? Tell me everything. This, unfortunately, is a brutal set of questions to answer. He sent me a text several days ago about having hiked up Nevada Falls. He said, "you would never believe some of the things we saw today," and "I'll tell you about it later, but nothing I say will equal the experience." That's the feeling. While I obviously think that travel is an essential part of the human existence due to how it makes you feel about situations you're unfamiliar with (among about a million other reasons), travel is also a personal, intimate experience to have wit...