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In how many languages do you know how to say “hello”? If you can answer, “11 or more,” you qualify as a hyperpolyglot, according to this article in The Economist: Foreign Languages: The Gift of Tongues.
The article starts with a historical figure, Cardinal Mezzofanti of Bologna, Italy. He was famed as a master of languages. Native speakers … Read more »
This article is the first in a series of posts explaining how to bring your music on the road and get to travel with it (Read the series’ introduction)
To be able to travel with your music, and I mean being able to get paid – even a tiny bit – to … Read more »
A friend asked me, “Will you ever stop travelling?” and without hesitation I answered, “No.” Then he looked at me earnestly for an explanation.
Truth is, a few years ago I gave his question a lot of thought. I’d been perpetually moving for three years and decided to rent a 21 acre farm, unpack boxes and take a romantic relationship to the next level. But then I tacked up a world map on the wall … Read more »
Jasmine Stephenson
Age: 26
Hometown: Tampa, Florida
Quote: “Stop making excuses. You will find a million reasons not to go, a million things holding you back. It’s okay to be afraid, nervous, anxious, doubtful. It will all be worth it. Take the leap.”
Sometimes, it’s hard to explain why we travel. Us travelers like to view ourselves as different than tourists, and our journeys as different than vacations. We enjoy experiences, people and perhaps most importantly those unpredictable things that come from freely roaming. There’s a feeling that comes with these experiences that can simply be hard to describe.
I think this recent New York Times article, Thin Places, Where Heaven and Earth Come Closer, comes close. … Read more »
It’s possible that some of you have seen this viral study by Australian palliative nurse Bonnie Ware. In this article, which has since become a book, she records the most common regrets of her patients in their last weeks of life. She witnesses end-of-life epiphanies and received overwhelmingly consistent responses when she asked about regret. Similar themes continued to surface as her patients faced mortality, and it’s evident that the responses were too … Read more »
Carpe diem. Seize the day. Make the most of today. Don’t worry about the future.
We’ve all heard it. We’ve all heard the urgings of others pushing us toward our dreams. “Live for today,” they say. “Let tomorrow take care of itself.”
But should we?
Society has raised … Read more »
Occasional vagablogging contributor Kristin Van Tassel sends us this guidebook review from Mexico:
Last October Moon published the travel handbook Moon San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato and the Bajio
“If we were to map out our daily movements, we’d find that we tend to stick to what we know with little deviation. We move from our house to our job to the gym to the supermarket, back to the house, and get up the next day to do it all again. Guy Debord, one of the key figures in situationism, proposed taking a holiday from those routines in the form of the derive or … Read more »
This post is the fourth in a series on pre-trip planning (see the Intro, post #1: research, post #2: travel insurance, and post #3: gear).
When I think of how technology has improved the way I travel, two words instantly come to mind: Dropbox and Kindle.
Dropbox, for those of you who are not familiar with the service, is a way to back up files and sync them across all … Read more »