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

Indeed, the most vivid travel experiences usually find you by accident, and the qualities that will make you fall in love with a place are rarely the features that took you there.

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

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.

Contrary to popular stereotypes, seeking simplicity doesn't require that you become a monk, a subsistence forager, or a wild-eyed revolutionary. Nor does it mean that you must unconditionally avoid the role of consumer. Rather, simplicity merely requires a bit of personal sacrifice: an adjustment of your habits and routines within consumer society itself.

Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from