Of all the adventures and challenges that wait on the vagabonding road, the most difficult can be the act of coming home.

The act of vagabonding is not an isolated trend so much as it is a spectral connection between people long separated by place and time, but somehow speaking the same language.

Travel, I was coming to realize, was a metaphor not only for the countless options life offers but also for the fact that choosing one option reduces you to the parameters of that choice. Thus, in knowing my possibilities, I also knew my limitations.

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

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

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

The more we associate experience with cash value, the more we think that money is what we need to live. And the more we associate money with life, the more we convince ourselves that we're too poor to buy our freedom.