I’m rarely emotional about celebrity deaths. But oh man Anthony Bourdain. He inspired the style of travel I aspire to, and his shows have kept me company late at night in hotel rooms around the world. 💔

Anthony Bourdain: The Man Who Ate the World

He presented learning about the world as an obligation and an unbelievable adventure, something we’re ridiculously lucky to be able to do.

There are two ways of traveling, which are really two ways of looking at the world. You can see another country as simply an experience to consume, a place to collect trophies. Or you can look at it as an environment to interact with, something that changes you through the encounter and that you inevitably change by visiting.

Four Seasons in Rome

“Going home, I think, will be like waking up from a long and complicated dream, when you realize you are in your bedroom and everything around you is as it was but now slightly unfamiliar, and maybe slightly disappointing, too.”