This is a great quote, and I cannot agree more:

It is so easy to get bogged down into a state of reacting rather than being proactive. Travelling gives a thousand foot view of ones life, clarifying and honing in on what really matters.

Whenever I'm home I feel like I'm being progressively compressed down, by responsibility and habit and a thousand little things that seem more important than they really are, into a smaller and smaller box until I either break out or else become permanently square. Travel is how I break out of that box. I always come home excited, heart full of ideas and opportunity and a knowing that anything is possible, only to get trapped in the box again until I can find my way out and travel once more.