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Travel is a Curious Heart

By Rachel Du Mont-Greenlee
August 8, 2022
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Travel is the voyage through time, an unmasking of places, people, and histories. In the rubble of civilizations exists story upon story, age in the chips of marble and the pores of brick. Touch them long enough, and the buildings shall speak of art, music, movements, and fight.

Travel is the sip of pineapple, rum, and lime on a south-facing beach, where Poseidon tosses waves ashore to pearly sands. Palm trees sprinkle island chains, and Jurassic ferns cast shade for rainforest adventures. Coconut breezes spritz magic in the air. Breathe it in.

Silent temples of eastern empires speak messages of solitude, peace, and reflection into travelers’ ears. Travel is the keenness for understanding. The blur of past, present, and future is the ultimate meditation for a heart in need of answers.

Travel is the lion’s roar on the savannah plains, enlivening sleeping spirits. Lust for excitement bursts. New species to observe. Cubs in the brush. Tree limbs stretch as if waking from slumber.

Backpacks. Bottles. Thermoses. Tents. Travel is camping beneath the Milky Way, wishing upon shooting stars from foreign mountains or deserts. It is the blistering foot from walking miles. The dry mouth pining for one more sip, the pain, worth it, comes to the waterfall views.

Travel is the language unknown, tongues of new lands like the songs of rare birds. Hear them at the cafe, over a foaming cappuccino, in the bistro chair no store can replicate. Besides leaning fairytale buildings, cultures blend in the cobblestone streets, a linguistic smoothie of French, Italian, and Spanish.

Travel is the Arctic plunges, the Great Wall strolls, the Hawaiian swims, and the Mona Lisa nods. The Moroccan blues, Guinness pints, and curry tastes. Across the globe, it inspires, teaches, opens, and frees. Travel is a curious heart.

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Rachel Du Mont-Greenlee

As an antiquarian, Rachel Du Mont-Greenlee grew up knowing she’d incorporate history into her career, studying ancient civilizations and the physical, cerebral, and social jewels they left behind. During her studies at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where Du Mont-Greenlee earned her bachelor’s degree in City and Regional Planning, Du Mont- Greenlee realized her passion for architecture and urban forms, physical spaces that bridge cultures and enable sociality. After working several years in public and private sector urban planning, Du Mont-Greenlee returned to academia, earning her master’s degree in Social Anthropology from Goldsmiths College, University of London. At Goldsmiths, she wrote anthropological ethnographies including the following topics: how sense of place authenticity relays to mental experiences in restaurants, and an auto-ethnographic piece on the South Orange County suburbs that moves between architecture and people and sets an analogy between the making of homes and the making of housewives, informed by classic feminist theory. To better understand the politics of place, place authenticity, historical remembrance through spatial awareness, and architecture’s construction of sociality, she spent a year and a half researching urban trends during the coronavirus pandemic in London, England. Du Mont- Greenlee compared her social findings that society underwent gentrification of the mind amid the pandemic to the gentrification of urban places, including Shoreditch, London. In doing so, she found that anything—even longstanding architectural bastions once revered for their ingenuity could be erased or forgotten. Much like the books of old burned for their revolutionary messages. While not sculpted from brick and mortar or concrete or wood, the written word weathers time as do the architectural wonders of the world. Both are fragile, capable of crumbling in a moment, but both transcend time and remind humankind of history. Touched equally by the lives of collapsed civilizations as those breathing alongside her today, Du Mont-Greenlee believes the marvels humans create reflect the soul of humankind. These ideas inspire the non-fiction articles she writes for Coffee House Writers and her fiction manuscript Edge of Worlds.

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