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

Vagabonding is about not merely reallotting a portion of your life for travel but rediscovering the entire concept of time.

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

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.

For some reason, we see long-term travel to faraway lands as a recurring dream or an exotic temptation, but not something that applies to the here and now. Instead — out of our insane duty to fear, fashion, and monthly payments on things we don't really need — we quarantine our travels to short, frenzied bursts.

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.

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