In higher education internationalization literature, mobility has almost exclusively been analyzed with reference to study abroad for academic and professional development purposes. The cost incurred is an impoverishment of frames to guide the exchange student, to converse with the nomad scholar, and to make sense of knowledge from the borderlands. Not only has the COVID-19 pandemic been a shock to conventional expectations about mobility, but it has also presented an opportunity to engage with the justifications, ethics, and limits of travel, anew. This essay centers experiences of women’s pilgrimages in medieval Europe and wandering Asian seeker scholars in the ancient world to invite inquiry into mobility as a complex, normative paradigm and an imaginative reengagement with its multifaceted implications for learning.