There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.
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When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
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The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
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A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.
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Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel’s immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way.
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We do not need to understand other people and their customs fully to interact with them and learn in the process; it is making the effort to interact without knowing all the rules, improvising certain situations, that allows us to grow.
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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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