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

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

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.

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 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.

Time is the truest form of wealth. And the beauty is, we are all born equally rich in time.