You Travel to Search

“I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Tell Me How Much You Have Traveled

“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled” – Abu al-Qasim Muḥammad

To See Well The Rest

“Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life’s recollections” – […]

Roots and Wings

“Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings” – Hodding Carter

Travel Not to Escape Life

“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us – Robyn Yong

Every Joyous Moment of Travel

“All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel” – Paul Fussell

Except for a Weekend in Atlantic City

“I’m basically monogamous, preferring one headache at a time – except for a weekend in Atlantic City with those two sisters, but that’s another story” – John Corey

It’s a Strange Thing to Come Home

“It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot realize how strange it will be” – Selma Lagerlof

Never Count Countries

“I never count countries. Travel is not a contest” – Andrew Evans

Same in any Language

“Sometime ago I met a Navajo, in a parking lot in Tokyo. He said everything wordlessly. Wonderlust in my eyes he did see, oh yeah, oh oh yeah. Those postcards I sent to Birmingham, all the way from those windows of Amsterdam. I copped a gram from Dappersan, just to fall at her man in another jam, oh yeah, oh oh yeah. It’s the same in any language, a brother is a brother if there’s one thing I know. It’s the same in any language, wherever you go. Oooo yeah. I ran out of Jack in Tripoli, oh those freedom fighters they were good to me. They asked me all about Tennessee, and on one thing we all did agree, ooh yeah, yeah oh oh yeah” – I Nine (Same in any Language)

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