Travel

As I attempt to visit every corner of the globe, on an obsessive quest to go everywhere, I have tried to figure out why—what drives me toward the unknown, what pushes me down the most obscure roads I can find, what is this compulsion, this wanderlust, all about?

And the Monkey Learned Nothing is my second volume of travel writings, a sequel to Drinking Mare’s Milk on the Roof of the Word. The third and fourth volumes are on their way.

Each of these photographs is a testament to the human ability to connect across the fault lines that keep us precariously divided. And each is a tribute to the kindness of strangers and the accidental intimacy of the road.

Once again, Tom Lutz takes us to seldom-traveled corners of the world to bring us random reports of human kindness.