Why travel?

In Japan, I have found myself a happy, if admittedly half-rate,5 PLF imitator. The Fermor Solo Travel Method is superior. It consists in walking wherever you can; foregoing fine dining in lieu of cheaper, heartier fare; trusting locals over guidebooks but yourself over locals; taking the time to silently think through the many aspects — natural and... See more

William Lambert • The Brightest World Possible

is not to see scenery, you can see finer at home. It is not to see places where great people lived and died, that is a stupidity. But it is to see men. To enlarge your mind, which will never be enlarged by looking at a large hill, but by conversing with, and seeing the bent of the minds of other people.

Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough

Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt

translation:

Those that beyond sea go, shall find they change their climate only, not their mind.

Horace - from Epistles, Book 1, Epistle 11

Contemporary life pays tribute to the idea of travel but shrouds it in solipsism

William Lambert • The Brightest World Possible

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