aesthetics

I may have mentioned that I am reading Walking the Bible, by Bruce Feiler.  This morning, I came across this passage:

As much as he [Bruce's guide named Avner] knew about the Bible, he seemed to know more about the nature of travel, about how to go places, leave a bit of youself behind, take a bit of the place with you, and in the process emerge with something bigger — an experience, a connection, a story.” (p 192 in the hardcover edition)

This, well, gets it right.  The best sort of travel is a transaction between you and a foreign place.  In this transaction, you have to give some things up (security, preconceptions, time, comfort, energy) to get some things (memories, friends, photos, conversations), but it’s not the things you get that make the travel worthwhile.  It’s the experience that is constructed out of that transaction that matters; it’s the stories you tell yourself and others that, in a deep sense, makes travel.

My way of framing it is influenced heavily by Dewey’s aesthetics.  One of my many ideas for projects is some writing on the philosophy of travel and philosophy of education via travel.  What does everyone think?  Does anyone know of any literature on the philosophy of travel or the philosopy of education that includes travel?