Every day there are small moments when we have a choice: will we take in more stuff, or just clear our minds out for a bit?

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

We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.

Quitting, for me, means not giving up, but moving on; changing direction not because something doesn’t agree with you, but because you don’t agree with something. It’s not a complaint, in other words, but a positive choice, and not a stop in one’s journey, but a step in a better direction. Quitting-whether a job or a habit-means taking a turn so as to be sure you’re still moving in the direction of your dreams.

Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice

I think of the Dalai Lama as a doctor of the mind offering medicine and specific counsel and cures in the way a great doctor would.

Movement is a fantastic privilege but it ultimately only has meaning if you have a home to go back to.