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In travel, as in many other experiences in life, once is usually enough.

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If the Internet were everything it is cracked up to be, we would all stay at home and be brilliantly witty and insightful. Yet with so much contradict...more

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...luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes yo...more

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Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

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If I read enough about one country I sometimes found that the intensity of the reading removed by desire to travel there.

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Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

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When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for anothe...more

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Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it. Those whistle...more

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Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my patience with their food and their crotchets, my curiosity...more

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...it was just a version of Rimbaud in Harar: the exile, a selfish beast with modest fantasies of power, secretly enjoying a life of beer drinking and...more

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What I remembered most clearly about this Jinja road was that on portions of it, for reasons no one could explain, butterflies settled in long fluffy ...more

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You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back

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Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.

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..luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you...more

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You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.