Archives for December 2013

Good Quality Gear is Always Money Well Spent

“Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent” – Tahir Shah

To Understand Your Own Country

“‎W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One can say something similar for periods of time: to understand your own century you need to have come to terms with at least two others. The key to learning something about the past […]

Far Ranging Travel and Exotic Adventure

“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, […]

Stairway to Heaven

“Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run, there’s still time to change the road you’re on” – Led Zeppelin (Stairway to Heaven)

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Small as A World

“may came home with a smooth round stone,as small as a world and as large as alone” – E. E. Cummings

Picket the Antiseptic Nature of Modern Travel

“The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern travel, on commuter trains to insist on individualism in the midst of the herd, in hotel rooms to boycott the […]

Travel is Worth Any Cost

“To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice” – Elizabeth Gilbert

No Room at the Inn

“And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn” – Luke

What is it About Maps?

“What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit..” – Bill Bryson

We See Things at the Wrong Time

“A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain” – Alain de Botton