Dear Joe, I admit that travel, the departure and arrival associated with it, sometimes makes me weepy. If I cry, I usually cry on airplanes, most often during take-off and landing, and especially if I am reading a book. I cried on the flight home from Russia a few summers ago when I finished reading Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov.…
Ryan Call is the author of
The Weather Stations. He teaches English and coaches cross-country at a high school in Houston.