John Daly: Travel broadens the mind, as chance meetings with a disenchanted teen and an enchanting lady in her 70s taught me
J1 adventures aren't what they used to be, it seems. Photo: Getty
The world isn’t half settled, as my dear old dad used to say. It was a sentiment I recalled last week after two encounters with a diverse pair of individuals.
The first was a disenchanted 19-year-old working in my local cafe who’d rather be summer jobbing in the USA, while the other was an energetic 70-something lady checking out Volkswagen camper vans for an adventure to the edge of the world.
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