You should travel so that you can feel dumb. . .

good travel requires it

The steely grey skies and bunker-like apartment building from the window of our Berlin hotel

People sometimes think that traveling is for having fun, or for gathering cultural details and tidbits that you can file away in your brain or your body (in the case of food) and take it all with you back home. And it is.

But I think one of the best things about …