Vagabonding is about refusing to exile travel to some other, seemingly more appropriate, time of your life. Vagabonding is about taking control of your circumstances instead of passively waiting for them to decide your fate.

At times, the biggest challenge in embracing simplicity will be the vague feeling of isolation that comes with it, since private sacrifice doesn't garner much attention in the frenetic world of mass culture.

In a way, simplifying your life for vagabonding is easier than it sounds. This is because travel by its very nature demands simplicity. If you don't believe this, just go home and try stuffing everything you own into a backpack. This will never work, because no matter how meagerly you live at home, you can't match the scaled-down minimalism that travel requires.

Vagabonding is about not merely reallotting a portion of your life for travel but rediscovering the entire concept of time.

The goal of preparation then is not knowing exactly where you'll go but being confident nonetheless that you'll get there.

In reality long-term travel has nothing to do with demographics, age, ideology, income, and everything to do with personal outlook.

The mind can be a crazy monkey that is always dying to escape from the moment.