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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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Seeking authenticity in a given travel souvenir isn’t about the object itself so much as the traveler’s sense of self-identity. It is a way of convincing ourselves that we have somehow grasped the behind-the-scenes essence of a place and its inhabitants.

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Travel has become a way to remind myself how it feels to get lost, and then get unlost. It is a way to remember the discomfort of uncertainty and the unfamiliar. It’s an exercise in receiving the unexpected.

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Long term travel doesn’t require a massive “bundle of cash”; it requires only that we walk through the world in a more deliberate way.

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Vagabonding is about gaining courage to loosen your grip on the so-called certainties of this world… it’s about refusing to exile travel to some other, seemingly more appropriate, time of your life… it’s about taking control of your circumstances instead of passively waiting for them to decide your fate.

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The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home — and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.

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Travel writing resides in the overlap of reportage and memoir, and some of the most memorable travel writing isn’t about the act of physical motion so much as the task of reflecting on the complexity of human experience amid a world in flux.

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