“I am always on vacation.” While you might associate this statement with a bon vivant, trust fund kid, or recent retiree, none other than Mahatma Gandhi uttered this phrase. He was reportedly responding to a journalist who suggested that the tireless Indian lawyer deserved a vacation after his decades of activism. Gandhi didn’t mean he was constantly flying off to The Bahamas but was likely referring to present-moment awareness, the mental state during which the mind is focused neither on the past nor the future but truly on the here and now.
I thought about Gandhi’s line, vacations, and making the most of the here and now when we were working on this, our annual travel issue, which celebrates the best destinations, parks, bakeries, hotels, wineries, restaurants, spas, markets, and…
