If in doubt, just walk until your day becomes interesting.

The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home -- and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.

The simple willingness to improvise is more vital, in the long run, than research.

Long-term travel doesn't require a massive bundle of cash; it requires only that we walk through the world in a more deliberate way.

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

If you wander with open eyes and simple curiosity, you'll discover a much richer pleasure - the simple feeling of possibility that hums from every direction as you move from place to place.

Thus, the question of how and when to start vagabonding is not really a question at all. Vagabonding starts now. Even if the practical reality of travel is still months or years away, vagabonding begins the moment you stop making excuses, start saving money, and begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility. From here, the reality of vagabonding comes into sharper focus as you adjust your worldview and begin to embrace the exhilarating uncertainty that true travel promises.