Travelogue: Central & Eastern Europe
So often I see vacations as just a way to direct my work habits and relentlessness toward mapping out schedules and organizing train tickets, less concerned with the quality of my time than the quantity. A flight for me had always been a chance to catch up on job-related reading, to see movies I’d never been tempted to see when they were playing at
... See morePico Iyer • The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere (TED Books)
Shift from the outside to the inside If the latest trend in the modern travel is any indication, the affluent travel for learning, not leisure, and for transformation, and not thrill.
Ana Andjelic • The Business of Aspiration: How Social, Cultural, and Environmental Capital Changes Brands
Travel isn’t just for changing what’s outside, it’s for reinventing what’s inside.
Timothy Ferriss • Tools Of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
I know of few experiences that test a person’s character more than traveling unaccompanied. You are challenged every moment to make the experience extraordinary and have no one to rely on or blame if it does not meet expectations. It holds a mirror to you, showing you the discrepancy between who you are and who you want to be.
Jon Levy • The 2 AM Principle
While travel does expand and stretch the horizons of what we know about the world, it is not the answer we’re looking for in times of unrest. To strengthen the health of the mind, the venue to do that in is the one we are in now.
Lawrence Yeo • Travel Is No Cure for the Mind
There is often something deeper below the surface motivating many of us to strive to uncover something more about ourselves and the nature of this world when we travel. But do we necessarily need to go looking for it “out there” beyond the horizon? Why might strolling the streets of Paris on a fall moonlit night enchant us in a way our midwestern t... See more