Tuesday, May 17, 2005 at 07:21AM Most people are on the world, not in it - having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused, separate, and rigiidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.
John Muir
The Wilderness World of John Muir
Quoted Monday, May 16, 2005 at 05:50PM Long-term travel has nothing to do with demographics - age, ideology, income - and everything to do with personal outlook. Long-term travel isn't about being a college student; it's about being a student of daily life. Long-term travel isn't an act of rebellion against society; it's an act of common sense within society. Long-term travel doesn't require a massive "bundle of cash"; it requires only that we walk through the world in a more deliberate way. It's about using the prosperity and possibility of the information age to increase your personal options instead of your personal possessions. It is a prviate choice within a society that is constantly urging us to do otherwise and it begins the moment you stop making excuses, start saving money, and begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility.
Ralph Potts
Vagabonding
Quoted Saturday, May 14, 2005 at 06:39PM A lot of us first aspired to far-ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent in nature, which I find an inspiring idea. . . Thus, when we allow ourselves to imagine as we once did, we know, with a sudden jarring clarity, that if we don't go right now, we're never going to do it. And we'll be haunted by our unrealized dreams and know that we have sinned against ourselves gravely.
Tim Cahill
'Exotic Places Made Me Do It'
Quoted Wednesday, April 27, 2005 at 07:11PM We go where we need to go, and then try to figure out what we're doing there.
Jeff Greenwald
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