The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.

In the past, Ive visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldnt ordinarily explore.

Because I don't belong entirely to Britain or the U.S. or India or Japan, I build my foundations in some way deeper than mere passports, and more in the light of where I'm going than of "where I come from."

Destinations are less important than the spirit you bring to them.

...home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the ones that tie you down.

So travel for me is an act of discovery and of responsibility as well a grand adventure and a constant liberation.

Travel, in the superficial sense at least, is a good cure for loneliness. When you travel, especially in the third world, you quickly find that you get more friends than you know what to do with.