50 Years of Travel Tips

Being beautiful, or well crafted, or cheap is not enough for a souvenir. It should have some meaning from the trip. A good question you may want to ask yourself when buying a souvenir is where will this live when I get home?

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The best souvenirs from a trip are your memories of the trip so find a way to memorialize them; keep a journal, send updates... See more

Kevin Kelly • 50 Years of Travel Tips

“My key words are experiential and contextual,”

Ken Robinson • The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

I know that travel is valuable because most knowledge can’t be written down. The most crucial info about a society is how it feels to be there—the rhythms of street life, where and when people eat meals, how gender works. You can read a million things about Japan without knowing the bodily experience of walking around in a truly high-trust society,... See more

“50 things I know”/SOLO/Travel tip

Travel isn’t just for changing what’s outside, it’s for reinventing what’s inside.

Ferriss, Timothy • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

Prolific author Michael Crichton on the value of travel. It’s from his book titled…ummm… Travels:

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your foo