March 28, 2003
Use your flashlight to lift the walls right off of you!
My brother-in-law David Van Tassel alerted me to this lampoon of the new Homeland Security icons from www.ready.gov. I’m sure...Read this article
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March 26, 2003
Thomas Merton on the beggars of Calcutta
"But the routine of the beggars is heart-rending. The little girl who suddenly appeared at the window of my taxi,...Read this article
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March 25, 2003
Rolf Potts on preparation v. improvisation
"The goal of preparation is not knowing exactly where you’ll go, but being confident nonetheless that you’ll get there. This...Read this article
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March 24, 2003
Claude Levi-Strauss on the traveler's perceived loss of the past
"I wished I had lived in the days of real journeys, when it was still possible to see the full...Read this article
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March 21, 2003
Theron Nunez on how host communities bend to accommodate tourism
"Tourists are less likely to borrow from their hosts than their hosts are from them, this precipitating a chain of...Read this article
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March 20, 2003
Mark Twain on the mind-expanding power of travel
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad,...Read this article
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March 19, 2003
Philip Caputo on the modern definition of "adventure travel"
"'Adventure travel' is a term I'm not entirely fond of, but I suppose we need it to distinguish modern modes...Read this article
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March 18, 2003
Rolf Potts on travel judgment
Good judgment can come from bad experiences; good experiences can come from bad judgment. --Rolf Potts, Vagabonding (2003)...Read this article
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March 17, 2003
Donald Ross on how travel affects host cultures
"To travel somewhere is almost always to support someone and to exploit someone -- often the same person.” --Donald Ross,...Read this article
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March 15, 2003
Douglas Rushkoff on fear and optimism
"Optimism is dangerous, because optimists don't believe in worst-case scenarios, and worst-case scenarios are what are used to frighten us...Read this article
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March 14, 2003
Graham Greene on American good intentions
"Oh, I know your motives are good, they always are... I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you...Read this article
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March 13, 2003
Hunter S. Thompson on traveling into the unknown
"With the palms zipping past and the big sun burning down on the road ahead, I had a flash of...Read this article
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March 12, 2003
Josiah Tucker on travel motivations
"Persons who propose to themselves a scheme for traveling, generally do it with a view to obtain one or more...Read this article
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March 11, 2003
Evelyn Waugh on budget travel, misadventure, and travel writers
"There is a new type of traveler which is represented by nearly all the young men and women who managed...Read this article
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March 10, 2003
Klaus Westerhausen on the jadedness of travelers' ghettos
"With the arrival of ever-increasing numbers of visitors at traveler centers such as Thamel in Kathmandu or Koh Phangan in...Read this article
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March 08, 2003
Rolf Potts on the importance of earning your own way
"Ironically, the best litmus test for measuring your vagabonding gumption is not found in travel, but in the process of...Read this article
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March 07, 2003
Mary Karr on leaving home
"No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first...Read this article
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March 06, 2003
Nicholas Howe on the connection between travel reading and travel writing
"For as long as people have been writing about their journeys, they have been telling tales of the strange and...Read this article
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March 05, 2003
Alain de Botton on the sublime
"The sublime is a feeling provoked by certain kinds of landscape that are very large, very impressive and dangerous. Places...Read this article
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March 04, 2003
Charles Bukowski on the dubious allure of beaches
"What was the fascination of the beach? Why did people like the beach? Didn't they have anything better to do?...Read this article
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March 03, 2003
Ed Buryn on travel desire
"Wanting to travel reflects a positive attitude. You want to see, to grow in experience, and presumably to become more...Read this article
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March 01, 2003
Walt Whitman on personal freedom
"From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, / Going where I list, my own master...Read this article
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