Travelling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.
“It is but about a fortnight since we left London, but the variety of scenes we have gone through make it seem equal to six months living in one place. Perhaps I have suffered a greater change, too, in my own person, than I could have done in six years at home.”
Source
Benjamin Franklin in a letter to Polly Stevenson, September 14, 1767. Morrison, Helen Barber. The Golden Age of Travel: Literary Impressions of the Grand Tour. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1951.