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Whether it's the crimson red of a Royal Air Maroc boarding pass that leads to buying a new bedroom lampshade....
Or the kitchen scenes in "Downton Abbey" (can we pause to drool over that series for a moment?) that suddenly make you reconsider a flagstone floor....
Or the reckless spread of flowering potato vines at a local restaurant that spark an idea for adding style to a front door....
"Aha" moments are everywhere if you just look for them.
When it comes to travelling, I am most enticed by destinations in which there exists a precarious balance between unruliness and order. The souks in Marrakech were not only a kaleidoscope of culture, they were a barrage of colors, textures and ideas. Yes, it was hodge-podge; yes, colors clashed; yes, there was more pattern-on-pattern that seemed possible for the human retina to absorb, but everywhere you looked there was something that seemed to jumpstart a dazzling flash in your brain.
And don't even get me started on Scotland.
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