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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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