Vagabonding Case Study: Jorge Mendoza
Jorge Mendoza
Age: 23
Hometown: Valley Center, San Diego
Quote: “Personal freedom begins with a leap of faith… you only regret the things you don’t do.”
Jorge Mendoza
Age: 23
Hometown: Valley Center, San Diego
Quote: “Personal freedom begins with a leap of faith… you only regret the things you don’t do.”
“All you need to know about American society can be gleaned from an anthropology of its driving behavior. That behavior tells you much more than you could ever learn from its political ideas. Drive ten thousand miles across America and you will know more about the country than all the institutes of sociology and political science put together.” –Jean Baudrillard, America (1986)
Travel is as much an internal journey as an external one. As we move through countries and accumulate stamps in our passports, we’re logging miles. However, a more subtle odometer is ticking away in our minds. Our attitudes and personalities evolve as we see more places, meet more people.
Dave, a vagabonder who writes “The Longest Way Home” blog, had a great post titled, The five … Read more »
“Tedious journeys are apt to make companions irritable one to another; but under hard circumstances, a traveler does his duty best who doubles his kindliness of manner to those about him, and takes harsh words gently, and without retort. He should make it a point of duty to do so. It is at those times very superfluous to show too much punctiliousness about keeping one’s dignity, and so forth; since the difficulty lies not in … Read more »
If you’re considering taking a RTW trip, you could go the conventional way. Hitting the most popular destinations in the world and building your trip around seeing iconic sites around the globe is a popular strategy.
While that strategy is fantastic, have you considered other options? A few recent articles on BootsnAll offered a few other ideas for planning your RTW trip and making it unique and special. Many travelers know their history, and Read more »
“Some travelers have always needed to set themselves apart from others — from tourists. And almost as soon as the word tourist appeared at the start of the nineteenth century, it began to carry derogatory overtones, but the democratization of travel has charged the word with greater irritation and scorn. As more and more tourists from different social backgrounds crowd into the same cafés and hotels, tensions mount. The stereotyping of others reflects this social … Read more »
Businesspeople often tout their insane work schedules as a badge of honor, e.g. “We stayed up all night to close that deal!” So it was rare to see this blog post saying that people should travel more instead.
Mark Suster is a tech entrepreneur-turned-venture capitalist. His blog, Both Sides of the Table, is one of the top reads in Silicon Valley. Suster regularly writes about start-ups, entrepreneurship, and … Read more »