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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Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
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When all’s said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it’s not so much which road you take, as how you take it.
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Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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A wise man feels at home in every country. The whole universe is the home of a noble soul.
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…the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.
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When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.
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It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.
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The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
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Thus we presume to write, as it were, upon things that exist not, and travel by maps yet unmade.
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The transformation of entire cities due to tourism follows a simple economic logic: the needs of the locals do not correspond with the needs of the tourists.
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Tourism is a phenomenon that creates many private profits but also many socialized losses.
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If you’re feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you’re different.
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Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.
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