Travel reading

David Gilmour in "My Life with Tolstoy" (July/August 2006, The Walrus):

There's a way you read when you travel; it is, in itself, a kind of transport, the purity with which you pay attention. You never read like that at home. In fact, as the years have gone by and with them a dozen other trips, it has occurred to me that reading, all on its own, may well be the best reason to travel.