This anthology includes some fantastic pieces of writing that tell stories of travel and life. The stories are as varied as the people and take the reader to many different destinations. There is an ongoing theme of how travel or a journey changed someone's life. The most notable of these for me was Jeff Greenwald's The Fool and how meeting a woman in a gallery in Greece took him away from his intended path of sculpting on a Greek island and instead to Nepal. This is a witty and moving piece of writing. However, it is unfair to pick any one piece out as many of them are outstanding and this comes from someone not generally a lover of short stories but in this collection there is joy in the variety of style and places. ( )