I've always asked 'why' - and that relates to travel as much as anything else.
I want to find out what it's like to be a jeweller in the old town in Dubrovnik, or a postcard seller on the Venetian canals (well, nor right in them exactly - 'besides them' may be a better term), or a sheepdog trainer in the hills of Wales.
And, I love the sense of freedom I get when I travel - the anonymity; I can feel that in North Wales, as much as in Paris or Arizona.