October 27th, 2006 | By Joshua | No Comments »

“I take very seriously the sense of our living these days in a global neighborhood. And the first sensible thing to do in such circumstances, as well as one of the most rewarding things, is to go and meet the neighbors, find out who they are, and what they think and feel. So travel for me is an act of discovery and of responsibility as well a grand adventure and a constant liberation.” —Pico Iyer

Tom Robbins America quote

September 12th, 2006 | By Joshua | 1 Comment »

“[America] seems to have everything and yet has almost nothing. It’s unbelievable. In that vast, beautiful, powerful land of unprecedented abundance live some of the most unhappy people on earth. Oh, generally speaking, they complement all that affluence by being generous and energetic and, except for their ruling class—which is wormy with evil like ruling classes everywhere—rather decent.”
—Tom Robbins

July 7th, 2006 | By Joshua | No Comments »

“True travel is launching oneself into the unknown. There is no excuse for it except that one offers oneself in a spirit of experiment.”

— Paul Theroux

Joseph Dispenza quote

January 24th, 2006 | By Joshua | 1 Comment »

“Once we begin to see travel as an inner journey, it is possible to turn every trip we take into a spiritual practice—a hero’s adventure that enlivens our hearts and enlarges our souls. Travel becomes a spiritual experience for us when we are conscious at every moment that our physical transportation from place to place has a metaphysical counterpart. Understanding that, the road takes us inexorably to an encounter with the ‘stranger’ at the heart of the journey—the transformed self.”

–Joseph Dispenza, The Way of the Traveler

Peter Mathiessen

November 24th, 2005 | By Joshua | No Comments »

“I feel great gratitude for being here, for being, rather, for there is no need to tie oneself to the snow mountains in order to feel free. I am not here to seek the ‘crazy wisdom’; if I am, I shall never find it. I am here to be here, like these rocks and sky and snow, like this hail that is falling down out of the sun.”

–Peter Mathiessen, The Snow Leopard

Quote of the week…

October 15th, 2005 | By Joshua | No Comments »

“I offer no apologies for any departures from the usual style of travel writing that may be charged against me—for I think I have seen with impartial eyes, and I am sure I have written at least honestly, whether wisely or not.” — Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad

October 12th, 2005 | By Joshua | 1 Comment »

“My exposure to India, though brief, had been staggering. I had traveled extensively in Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras, so I knew what third world poverty looked like. But nothing could have prepared me for the total density of suffering. The immense need of the people, the vibrant anarchy of their lives, and the variety of costumes, physiognomy, and activity had left me drained. Certain images kept returning with an absolute force: the leper’s finger stumps thrust into my face, the mother holding her infant up to our cab, and from our first hours, that corpse surrounded by a circle of white stones. My heart was torn and tender.” —Rodger Kamenetz

Quote of the week…

October 1st, 2005 | By Joshua | No Comments »

“The profoundest satisfaction in travel is a sense of discovery, the private thrill of seeing something new or seeing it in a new way. This is unquestionably egotistical, but such discoveries do not come easy. Nothing is harder than that uncertain, Martian-on-Earth feeling of being alone in the middle of nowhere. The payoff is a conceited feeling of having gone to a distant place and unlocked a secret. As far as I am concerned, everything else in travel is a vacation, the view from a chaise lounge – horizontal.”
—Paul Theroux

Travel Quote of the Week

August 29th, 2005 | By Joshua | No Comments »

“Which is worse, to be too often protected, and thereby forget the suffering of others, or to suffer them oneself? There is, perhaps, a middle course: to be out in the world enough to be toughened, but to have a shelter sufficient to stave off callousness and wretchedness.”

–William T. Vollman (from The Atlas)

Travel Quote by Mark Jenkins

July 27th, 2005 | By Joshua | No Comments »

“Adventure is a path. Real adventure — self-determined, self-motivated, often risky — forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind — and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing willever again be black-and-white.”

–Mark Jenkins