What Travel Can, and Cannot, Teach Us
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
Justin S. Bailey • The Hope of Travel and All We Say About It
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
- 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,
Sasha Chapin • 50 Things I Know
But more significantly, we carry values and beliefs and news to the places we go, and in many parts of the world, we become walking video screens and living newspapers, the only channels that can take people out of the censored limits of their homelands. In closed or impoverished places, like Pagan or Lhasa or Havana, we are the eyes and ears of th... See more
the pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
The School of Life • A Simpler Life: A guide to greater serenity, ease and clarity
He who is only a traveller learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.