When someone get back from vacation, they tend to say that something changed about them. It could be a new (relaxed) attitude, a new philosophy or any other concepts that they picked up and then abandon after a few weeks. However, the word pilgrimage is associated with a tradition where people for centuries travel to places that have existed for centuries. People visit a significant location for any type of reason and at that place, something inside them just changes.Typically, pilgrimages are journeys to a significant sacred location, usually associated with religious sites, that people experience something miraculous in their lives. The journey that Vowell in Take the Cannoli went on was not one of great religious significance (a typical pilgrimage), her journey is an important moral pilgrimage as she traveled to an influential and cultural place
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Vowell cannot live the same code that was ill-fitted for her; she cannot emulate something that is nearly impossible to replicate and get lost in her own delusional world. She must go out and find makes her walkway of life distinct for her. Vowell “choose to travel or be conveyed to a pilgrimage center, there to hope for a miraculous cure, or the equal miracle of the gift of resignation to his painful lot”(pg.13) and in that trip, she received enlightenment. In that realization, she figured out that when she homesick and wanted to have something she is familiar with nearby (her family) and she cannot be so self-indulged by living in her own fantasy. She in fact got a hint about her future in which she starts to write about her life by figuring out “Why not tell people outside the family what you're thinking? As [she] would later find out, it’s a living”
Vowell cannot live the same code that was ill-fitted for her; she cannot emulate something that is nearly impossible to replicate and get lost in her own delusional world. She must go out and find makes her walkway of life distinct for her. Vowell “choose to travel or be conveyed to a pilgrimage center, there to hope for a miraculous cure, or the equal miracle of the gift of resignation to his painful lot”(pg.13) and in that trip, she received enlightenment. In that realization, she figured out that when she homesick and wanted to have something she is familiar with nearby (her family) and she cannot be so self-indulged by living in her own fantasy. She in fact got a hint about her future in which she starts to write about her life by figuring out “Why not tell people outside the family what you're thinking? As [she] would later find out, it’s a living”