Coming of Age as a Traveler

Venice: The Lottery in Piazza di Montecitorio

Here is a great example of the passion of the Italian people and possibly the passion that Lucy witnessed while there on her grand tour. They are exhibiting their passion for money and perhaps their passion for one another. The mixture of classes here represents how Italy was so vastly different from Lucy's own world and perhaps helped in her finding herself. 

John Soane Museum

John Soane went on a Grand Tour himself, but his was much different than the one Lucy took. However, Lucy gained just as much as Sir John Soane in that she acquired herself, which is more valuable than all the possessions money can buy.

There may be times when traveling and searching for ourselves we lose the place we considered home. This sometimes can be cause by as Lucy states a "deliberately warped brain." However, we always find our way back home. 

Sometimes it is not about "acquiring information" as a traveler, but rather being happy with what you are surround by. 

By traveling the world you encounter places that are so vastly different than you own. Part of taking the Grand Tour was to educated one's self on other cultures and we read in the book of Lucy finding beauty in the church in Santa Croce once she stops wallowing in the fact that she was left alone Miss Lavish who also was in Italy to learn of another culture, or so she says.