Andrew McCarthy

Good to be with you.

I mean, that's a bit of a long story, but I'll cut it.

Well, travel changed my life.

You know, I was young and in the movies, and then I started traveling the world alone.

And I believe travel is not about Instagram posts and, you know, bucket lists, but I think travel is really meaningful, good use of your time.

And travel changed my life.

It helped me feel at home in the world.

The further at home I get, the more at home in myself I tend to feel.

I'm someone who came into the world with a lot of fear for whatever reason, and travel has helped obliterate that for me.

It's fostered connection between me and the world.

The great travel writer Paul Theroux always said, it's about the traveler, not the destination.

I think that's totally true, and most people don't do it.

Anyway, I was traveling, and then one day I just picked up a pen, and I just wrote down

something.

I was in Saigon.

I remember very clearly I was in Saigon.

I had this extraordinary day and I came back to my hotel room and I was just buzzing.

I didn't know what to do.

I had all this energy.

So I just wrote down what happened that day and I finished it and I realized it wasn't a journal.