People who travel with a checklist mindset get burnt out. They collect countries like stamps, like dogs chase bones or sunsets, and fill their camera rolls with things they’ll barely remember a year from now. That’s all good, and there’s nothing wrong with that, but that’s not why I travel. I travel because people fascinate me. It sounds crazy because I’m mainly introverted. After visiting 40 countries, not as a tourist passing through but as someone who moves slowly, lives locally, and watches carefully, I’ve noticed something: take away the language, the food, the religion, the politics, and humans are…