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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

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And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

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But the traveler’s world is not the ordinary one, for travel itself, even the most commonplace, is an implicit quest for anomaly.

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All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

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A wise traveler never despises his own country.

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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes sight-seeing.

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I think the reason why backpackers choose the stress of independent travel over the ease and comfort of guided tours or pre-planned holidays is because, somewhere, secretly, we really get off on being completely out of control. You lessen your grip on absolutes and exercise your freedom of choice in what you do when life throws you some serious, exhaust-coated lemons.

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This is one of my favorite things about travel. There is very little that can compare with the feeling of knowing that you don’t NEED to do anything. When will things get done? Hell, whenever you damn well feel like it… that’s when.

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There’s a certain type of personality that is drawn to living life out of a sack. People who are oh, say – about 20% MacGyver, 10% stubborn, 30% romantic, 20% commitment phobic, and 20% obsessed with finishing their lives sans any regrets. People like this aren’t super common at home (I’ve found a few!) but, like bureaucratic paperwork or armed robbery, they are part of … [ Read more ]

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During my time traveling in [less affluent countries], I often traveled without access to hot water, Internet, air conditioning, or even basic electricity. I slept in rooms with spiders, mosquitos, and bedbugs. I rode on public transportation that rarely left on time and often broke down suddenly in remote areas. Stripped of my daily habits and expectations, I was forced to surrender the idea that … [ Read more ]

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May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.

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No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.

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I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.

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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

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What is travelling? A change of location? By no means! When traveling, one modifies beliefs and prejudices.

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It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

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Travel is like the high drama of youth. It’s the best and worst at the same time. One minute you are flung to the depths of despair, the next, you feel the giddy, exaggerated joy of an adolescent. For me, it had been a chance to make rash decisions, to take wild risks, to lose everything knowing I’d still have plenty of time to earn … [ Read more ]

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Half the fun of the travel is the aesthetic of lostness.

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