There's always a way if you're not in a hurry.
Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
Reading is also a journey. It's a process of discovery.
Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.
The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.
Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.