Jordan Valley, Israel/Palestine It’s not everyday that you stand on the side of a highway, a car pulls over, you get in, and moments later the driver says you’re an answer to prayer. Up until this car stopped, the day had been full of disappointments. I had left Jerusalem that morning and gone to Jericho...

Anata, West Bank In my book 30 Reasons to Travel: Photographs and Reflections from Southeast Asia , I offer several non-standard reasons for hitting the road. Here is the most counterintuitive of the bunch: “Hating”. In a perfect world, of course, there would be no need to hate, because we would all treat one another...