What can you learn from travel? How can travel change you? Why is travel important? ELLE Canada shares first-person travel essays by Canadian women who have embarked on all kinds of epic journeys. Buffy Cram writes about finding wanderlust while living in 10 different countries over the course of a decade; Eliza Robertson gets an unexpected reality check during 22 hours in Cairo; eco fashion stylist Sarah Jay explores lands of contradiction during a two-month trek to India and Bangladesh; Jeanie Keogh finds out what it means to go the distance for love in Tajikistan; Maryam Siddiqi finds a new home during 193 days of solo travel; Lara Koerner Yeo learns what pilgrimage really means at Tibet’s Mount Kailash….and more.