Vagabonding Case Study: Adam Pervez
Adam Pervez
Age: 30
Hometown: Strongsville, Ohio
Quote: “Know yourself as well as possible and organize your trip based on your personality. Go with your own flow, not the flow of others.”
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Adam Pervez
Age: 30
Hometown: Strongsville, Ohio
Quote: “Know yourself as well as possible and organize your trip based on your personality. Go with your own flow, not the flow of others.”
There is a common trait among us travelers regarding the seasons: With the onset of spring, thoughts turn to traveling. It’s in our DNA. This can pose a conundrum for us, since another trait of the inveterate traveler is difficulty with deciding where to go next with limited resources (and they are always limited).This can provoke a lot of angst and indecision for us. For the next few posts, I’ll be examining the different ways … Read more »
Picture credit: Flickr/shenamt
Compared to most of my unemployed – or struggling to keep that one job that keeps them floating –friends back home, I have to feel privileged.
This was the bottom line of a phone conversation I recently had with my parents. As more and more people struggle … Read more »
Cost/day: $50/day
What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately?
The Panama Canal. I sat on the observation deck for hours, watching in amazement as several ships passed through one of mankind’s greatest engineering feats – which saves ships the arduous 8,000 mile (12,875 km) journey around South America by connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean.
Nancy has done the impossible. And I don’t mean cycling from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Ushuaia, Argentina over three years with twin boys who broke the Guinness World record for youngest persons to cycle the continents. That’s entirely doable, as is clearly evident by their success. The impossible is encapsulating the scope of that epic adventure into … Read more »
“You’re so brave,” a friend said. “How do you overcome fear?”
We, as humans, have this tendency to build up the unknown into some kind of great big monster out to slay us. We look ahead into the vast expanse of indefinite spread out before us and see it as something too … Read more »
“Tourism is a sacred journey, the contemporary counterpart of medieval pilgrimage. It turns on a very contemporary distinction between work and play. It thereby ignores that hard work can be pleasurable and that pleasure can be hard work.” –David Brown, “Genuine fakes” (1996)
Picture credit: Hans Kemp/Burmese Light
Visionary World from Hong Kong is about to release “Burmese Light”, a pictorial travel book assembled by photographer Hans Kemp and travel writer Tom Vater. The project is an attempt to capture the current changing situation of Myanmar, a country that, despite its troubled … Read more »
The subject of my life as a minimalist keeps coming up in conversations lately.
I’m always a bit taken aback when someone suggests it, because I don’t think of myself as a minimalist at all. It’s true, I’ve lived out of a backpack, essentially, for over five years now. My whole life fits into one checked bag … Read more »
“It is good to come to a country you know practically nothing about. Your thoughts grow still, useless. Everything must be rebuilt. In a country you know nothing about, there is no reference point. You struggle to associate colors, smells, dim memories. You live a little like a child, or an animal. Objects and events may bring things to mind, but in the end they remain no more than what they are in fact. They … Read more »