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It’s difficult to sum-up travel experiences when you return home. The best and occasionally the worst question: “How was your trip?” requires you to continually summarize experiences that shouldn’t be summarized: to package them into little digestible bits that fit well into small talk, to homogenize descriptions to fit with the culture of the people with whom you’re talking. To me, it can be a slow death for travel memories. But perhaps that’s the nature of memories in general. The more we remember those moments, the more our perception of them changes. We preserve some of these raw memories through photo...