Some days the best plan for travel is not having a plan

"I hit the streets every day with no real plan besides walking and seeing what happens or taking a taxi across town and finding my way back. Or I look out the top of the hotel and see an area and say, okay, I’m going there today—that slum, that village. I go through souks and...

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Travel is an ongoing exercise in humility (in a good way)

"[Travel is] humbling to the point where you have major regrets about some of the stupid things you said, some of the things you thought were right. You keep going to these countries, and it’s like, you forgot the lesson from the last time. Because the first person you encounter kind of bitch-slaps you upside...

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Henry Rollins on how travel changes the way you see the world

"I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you’re going to...

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How travel made a rock star humble

Rock stars aren't exactly known for being modest, peaceful types. In fact, we sort of expect them to be the opposite. On a refreshing change of pace, World Hum had this Interview with Henry Rollins . The former lead singer of the band Black Flag, Rollins decided to pursue his wanderlust. What he saw changed...

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Travel widens the scope of how you understand world events

"So many Americans, for one reason or another, they watch the news and it doesn’t really give them the idea of the world. Or they don’t read or travel. They have no idea that America is part of the world and not the world itself. And so anything from the travel stories I tell, that’s...

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