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Pico Iyer

My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.

Pico Iyer

Christmas

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The author uses air travel as a personal gift to explore new and distant places beyond the familiar environments of California and Japan. This yearly journey reflects a desire to break away from comfort zones and experience the wider world during the Christmas season.

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