It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and what’s happened. In the end, you’re just happy … [ Read more ]
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If you’re 22, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.
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Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.
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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
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If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick … [ Read more ]
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A journey is a person itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
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Visitar lugares tan remotos al otro lado del mundo con gente tan distinta pero al mismo tiempo tan parecida, con aromas y sabores tan ajenos a lo conocido. Mirar sus dioses y sentir que Dios hay uno solo con deferentes nombres. Caminar por lugares remotos con tanta historia y al mismo tiempo sentir que soy parte de ese mundo. Para mi viajar no es solo … [ Read more ]
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It’s important to take public transport as you roam. How else can you explore a place and understand how it all fits together if you don’t travel as the people in the country — some of them, anyhow — have to.
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You are the aggregate of your experiences, places, and the people who teach you to live in this world. What your personality absorbs as you travel, what you “leave” of yourself in the places you love isn’t a lacuna. It’s an exchange. It makes room for all of the new wonder and recipes and memories.
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There are two kinds of travel writing. One that is about the place, which invariably touches upon the history and culture. The other kind of travel writing is about the writer and how they experience the world. The best kind of travel writing does both.
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I want to look at a map and be able to remember how I was transformed by the places I’ve been to, the things I’ve seen and the people I’ve met. I want to come home and realize that I have not come home whole but have left a piece of my heart in each place I have been. This, I think, is what is … [ Read more ]
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Is there anything, apart from a really good chocolate cream pie and receiving a large unexpected cheque in the post, to beat finding yourself at large in a foreign city on a fair spring evening, loafing along unfamiliar streets in the long shadows of a lazy sunset, pausing to gaze in shop windows or at some church or lovely square or tranquil stretch of quayside, … [ Read more ]
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I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile effort to recapture the comforts you wouldn’t have lost if you hadn’t left home in the first place.
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To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.”
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But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most … [ Read more ]
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Each trip, long or short, near or far, is an opportunity for perspective, inspiration, learning, recharging and global citizenship. Even on that, “I just need a change of scenery” road trip, there are opportunities… we just need to be open to the possibilities.
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Each time I travel to a new location, I feel as though I am finding out a little more about the person I am, understanding a little more about the world, and enriching my soul with each new experience I have.
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A journey neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have returned home. It starts much earlier and is really never over, because the film of memory continues running on inside of us long after we have come to a physical standstill.
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Travelers understand, instinctively and by experience, that travel and adventure change and elongate time, even while navigating the deadlines of airline and train departures.
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