Michael Barbaro

From The New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro.

This is The Daily on Sunday.

Travel is an inescapably visual experience.

The entire vocabulary we attach to travel confirms that.

We go sightseeing.

We ask for rooms with a view.

We memorialize our trip, or we brag about it, by posting photographs on social media.

But my colleague Andy Isaacson, an accomplished photographer and writer, recently took a trip with a group of blind travelers that directly challenged the idea that we best understand the world through our eyes.

Today, Andy talks to us about that trip and about the deeper layers of experience that are revealed by travelers who cannot see.

It's Sunday, May 24th.

Andy Isaacson, welcome to The Daily.

You have traveled all over the world for your work.

You've reported four times from every continent on Earth.

Yeah.

And I have to say, that sounds like the most romantic job in the universe.

Do you hear that all the time?

Was it?

Can you give us a brief rundown of some of the places you've been in that fully realized dream job career?

To be able to look at a map and put your finger somewhere and see it because you had seen it.

And how did you try to answer that question?