This would become a lifelong pattern, sitting in my comfort zone high above the world in some sort of self-imposed exile.
Peggy Kopman-OwensStichwörter: adventure travel action mystery suspense thriller
Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations.
Eugene LindenStichwörter: travel preparation travel-writing eco-journalism
Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.
Paul TherouxStichwörter: life kindness trust travel strangers
Having books standing on a shelf in a room is like having completely different worlds at the ready, waiting to be explored.
J.F HermannStichwörter: imagination life books inspiration world home mind creativity living travel magic meditation luxury dimension
...Bhutan all but bases its identity upon its loneliness, and its refusal to b assimilated into India, or Tibet, or Nepal. Vietnam, at present, is a pretty girl with her face pressed up against the window of the dance hall, waiting to be invited in; Iceland is the mystic poet in the corner, with her mind on other things. Argentina longs to be part of the world it left and, in its absence, re-creates the place it feels should be its home; Paraguay simply slams the door and puts up a Do Not Disturb sign. Loneliness and solitude, remoteness and seclusion, are many worlds apart.
Pico IyerStichwörter: travel travel-writing
You wind back the clock several decades when you visit a Lonely Place; and when you touch down, you half expect a cabin attendant to announce, "We have now landed in Lonely Place's Down-at-Heels Airport, where the local time is 1943 and the temperature is...frozen.
Pico IyerStichwörter: world travel travel-writing
Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.
Pico IyerStichwörter: travel wordsworth
It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.
Sarah TurnbullStichwörter: travel expatriate
The real home of man is not his house but the road. Life itself is a travel that has to be done by foot.
Bruce ChatwinStichwörter: travel
It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after,you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and whats happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there- with your eyes open- and lived to see it.
Anthony BourdainStichwörter: travel
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