For Sam Anderson, a staff writer, traveling with animals can lead to enlightening experience. In this essay for The New York Times Magazine, Mr. Anderson explores what he has learned from a lifetime of voyaging with animals, and what it means to connect with another creature: bridging spiritual, physical and even temporal distances, and reaching into \u201csomething like evolutionary time.\u201d\n\n\u201cAn animal voyage,\u201d Mr. Anderson writes, \u201cis special because it requires us to make many journeys all at once.\u201d