Budge Travel has run an interesting travelogue piece (reprinted on MSNBC.com) on Five trips that can change your life. Installment 1: India.

“I had not come to India on any kind of Mission Enlightenment, but the funny thing about change is how it creeps up on you when you are busy acting like a brat. As soon as we left Delhi, the little kindnesses started: When I fell sick in the Lawrence of Arabia worthy desert town of Jaisalmer, a restaurant owner named Rama became my temporary mother, easing my stomach pain with desert cures and my loneliness with long, intimate talks.”

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