The true secret to seeking the unknown is in the looking, not the finding. The journey is what matters.

The true secret to seeking the unknown is in the looking, not the finding. The journey is what matters.

My world view has always been that there's just an enormous amount of cultural and religious diversity out there, all of which is really worth taking in.

Sometimes, when you're this adventurous, you rip the crotch out of your pants.

Seeing the world is a prerequisite to understanding one’s place in it.

In flight...entire days can be wound back or skipped over...as we exist merely in a world of vapor. Adventures are both beginning and coming to a close up here as people from opposite ends of experience paradoxically move in one direction.

The magnificent thing about her [Amelia Earhart] is, in the eyes of the world, she simply never died. Her fear never witnessed, her failure never recorded, her shiny twin-engine Electra never recovered. Earhart's legacy of inspiration is amplified because her adventure is perpetual. We don't think of her as dead; we think of her as missing. She is forever flying, somewhere beyond Lae, over that limitless blue horizon.