spirituality-travel: distinctly uninteresting to me? why? (if it is because of some usual trappings, can these be specified, articulated?*

Food for the wandering mind [Ask Metafilter]
In a while I will be going on a round the world trip to do a bit of soul searching (and to have a lot of fun of course). I'm looking for books on the subject of travel, not the pragmatically oriented genre, but philosophically and spiritually inclined ones. I'd like to read true stories about open-minded people backpacking around the globe and learning something about themselves and the world.
I'd appreciate it if you could include a one-line summary with your recommendations, for example:
The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton: lighthearted, philosophically-inclined book about the peculiarities of travel.
Be Here Now by Ram Dass: successful Harvard psychologist ends up in India after experimenting with acid.
posted by koenie to travel & transportation (20 comments total)
anyway my initial impulse to cpy this here (despite disinterest in genre of book suggestions solicitied) was for that one-line summary of Be Here Now, which I remember from P&P, square & blue, full of drawing, pulled by Rudi(ah recalled name) to show a customer?

*hmm a qstn for dB? take this to prufrck.