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.

If you wander with open eyes and simple curiosity, you'll discover a much richer pleasure - the simple feeling of possibility that hums from every direction as you move from place to place.

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.

Vagabonding is an attitude — a friendly interest in people, places, and things that makes a person an explorer in the truest, most vivid sense of the word.

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

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.

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