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Pilgrimage by Jeff Goins on 8/21/2010

Perhaps against my better male judgment, I went to see
Eat, Pray, Love last weekend with my wife. I bought this New York Times bestseller for her just before our taking a trip to New York City for Labor Day last year.
We've started an informal tradition of buying each other books before traveling. I bought her
Wonderful Tonight, the story of Patti Boyd's love triangle with Eric Clapton and George Harrison, before going on our honeymoon. She bought me a Star Wars book before my mission trip to Costa Rica last spring.
I'm not sure why we do this, except that because maybe we both believe in the transformative power of travel. Travel has always been a part of our life and relationship. In fact, our first year of dating (it was more like courting) occurred while I was traveling with a music ministry.
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