June 2013
22 posts
“You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.”
—Ray Bradbury (via travel-quotes)
He glimpsed her freckled skin through the open back of her dress and was filled with a longing desire to be transformed into the sun- even for just the briefest of moments- so that he too may gently kiss her shoulder blades and leave his mark upon her.
-A.W.
“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.”
—Albert Camus, from “Notebooks, 1951-1959” (via blameitonwanderlust)
“Don’t get stuck. Move, travel, take a class, take a risk. There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming. Don’t lose yourself at happy hour, but don’t lose yourself on the corporate ladder either. Stop every once in a while and go out to coffee or climb in bed with your journal. Now is your time. Walk closely with people you love. Don’t get stuck in the past, and don’t try to fast-forward yourself into a future you haven’t yet earned. Give today all the love and intensity and courage you can, and keep travelling honestly along life’s path.”
—Street Smarts: A Learning Process: 11 Things to Know at 25(ish)
“Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendship and above all to contribute international cooperation and peace through out the world”
—Jules verne (via kaoskakisimataempat)
“The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes ‘sight-seeing’.” – Daniel J. Boorstin”
—(via swimandstaci)
“Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.”
—Eudora Welty, One Writer’s Beginnings (via travellinginspiration)
sometimes I wonder if who I am today is the person my 17 year old self would have been proud to be.
“One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.”
—Edith Wharton (via travel-quotes)
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
—Gustave Flaubert (via livefortravel)
“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.”
—Anthony Bourdain (via livefortravel)
May 2013
61 posts
I can never get tired of watching “The Way’. So beautiful, inspirational, heartfelt, and poignent. El Camino de Santiago is something I would love to do one day. I feel like it would be a wonderful journey to take with my future husband on our honeymoon. Can you just imagine how meaningful that could be to the beginning of our own pilgrimage of life together? Maybe some day…
Iceland
okay, so scratch Europe. It turns out our connecting flight is through Qatar and it would be really expensive to try to change my flight from what has already been booked with the group. But alas, all is not lost. I have decided that I am going to fly back with the group to Washington DC and from there go to Iceland! I will spend 2-3 weeks in Iceland and from there go back home. I am so freaking excited and right now a ticket for the route I’m planning is only $775!
Anyone have any experience or advice for someone going to Iceland?
Apparently one of the royal carribbean cruise ships had a fire in one of the cabins on the fourth floor. Geez all these mishaps make me reconsider wanting to work on a cruise ship after college.
“Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.”
—Gaby Basora (via livefortravel)
“There is no African, myself included, who does not appreciate the help of the wider world, but we do question whether aid is genuine or given in the spirit of affirming one’s cultural superiority. My mood is dampened every time I attend a benefit whose host runs through a litany of African disasters before presenting a (usually) wealthy, white person, who often proceeds to list the things he or she has done for the poor, starving Africans. Every time a well-meaning college student speaks of villagers dancing because they were so grateful for her help, I cringe. Every time a Hollywood director shoots a film about Africa that features a Western protagonist, I shake my head — because Africans, real people though we may be, are used as props in the West’s fantasy of itself. And not only do such depictions tend to ignore the West’s prominent role in creating many of the unfortunate situations on the continent, they also ignore the incredible work Africans have done and continue to do to fix those problems.”
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Uzodinma Iweala, “Stop Trying to ‘Save’ Africa”
(via cammyyy)
20 free things to do in Prague
I’ve been looking at my possible flight itinerary for Africa and if I’m right in assuming that we will have a layover in Brussels, Belgium then I may do an extension on my way back home and spend 2-3 weeks going through Europe. Here are my possible routes:
Route 1: Brussels—> Bruges—> Frankfurt—> Vienna—> Prague
Route 2: Brussels—> Paris—> Zurich—> Munich—> Vienna—> Prague
or Brussels—> Paris—> Zurich—> Vienna—> Prague
I have no idea why I never considered this until now, but tonight I had a revelation that I could solo travel after my semester abroad. Alright, time to start an itinerary.
mi scusi, mi scusi
I forgot how funny Eurotrip was.
sorry, you’re great and everything, its just i only develop crushes on people that i can’t have. this will never work because there’s a chance that it might, and then what would i be, happy? not on my watch.
My life.
“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.”
—Francis Bacon (via travel-quotes)
