Phone are wonderful instruments, but I wouldn't want our daughter to marry one.
I think your travels get better when you stop showcasing your journey to others and begin to live it, quietly and joyfully.
Zamunda represent everything that is kewl and real about vagabonding. . . . being the person that discovered Zamunda (for independent travelers) during the research of my book, Vagabonding, I am happy to see a well written guide done by the boyz and girl at BootsnAll
In reality long-term travel has nothing to do with demographics, age, ideology, income, and everything to do with personal outlook.
Seeing' as you travel is somewhat of a spiritual exercise: a process not of seeking interesting surroundings, but of being continually interested in whatever surrounds you.
In this way, we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) “the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it. ” We'd love to drop all and explore the world outside, we tell ourselves, but the time never seems right. Thus, given an unlimited amount of choices, we make none. Settling into our lives, we get so obsessed with holding on to our domestic certainties that we forget why we desired them in the first place.
Money, of course, is still needed to survive, but time is what you need to live. So, save what little money you possess to meet basic survival requirements, but spend your time lavishly in order to create the life values that make the fire worth the candle. Dig?
The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.
The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on Sunday with power to reprove, rebuke and exhort. He may be the life of the party but it will be the death of the prophet.
That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.
Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.