Henry Miller on chance encounters
Posted by mmallory in Aug, 2019
“We attribute much to chance meetings, refer to them as turning points in our life, but these encounters could never have occurred had we not made ourselves ready for them. If we possessed more awareness, these fortuitous encounters would yield still greater rewards. It is only at certain unpredictable times that we are fully attuned, […]
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Paul Theroux on the importance of traveling by road
Posted by mmallory in Aug, 2019
“Flying from one capital city to another is not travel to me. Travel, especially in Africa, must be overland and must involve the crossing of borders — negotiating on land, usually on foot, the national frontier. That experience teaches a great deal about the state of the country. Of course, it’s sometimes dangerous and always […]
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Phil Cousineau on the process of dreaming up journeys
Posted by mmallory in Aug, 2019
“Reading old travel books or novels set in faraway places, spinning globes, unfolding maps, playing world music, eating in ethnic restaurants, meeting friends in cafes whose calls hold the soul-talk of decades — all these things are part of never-ending travel practice, not unlike doing scales on a piano, shooting free-throws, or meditating. These are […]
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Build a Campfire
Posted by mmallory in Aug, 2018
“Today the campfire is called a computer or a television … Drama goes back to the beginning of civilization around the campfire, where the tribe comes together, and they say, “My God, did you see what blah blah did with that mountain lion today?” And the other guy says, “I’ll tell you one better than […]
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Once the Travel Bug Bites…
Posted by mmallory in Jun, 2017
“Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life” – Michael Palin
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Travel, at its best, is braided together with life itself
Posted by mmallory in Feb, 2015
“All I know is that I want to live somewhere I’ll have to relearn everything: how to cross the street, how to order coffee, how to deal with people whose modes of thinking are utterly, intriguingly foreign to my own. I want to be uncomfortable, to be an outsider not just in my own mind […]
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Paul Fussell’s famous rant on the hypocrisy of “anti-tourists”
Posted by mmallory in Aug, 2013
“As I have said, it is hard to be a snob and a tourist at the same time. A way to combine both roles is to become an anti-tourist. Despite the suffering he undergoes, the anti-tourist is not to be confused with the traveler: his motive is not inquiry but self-protection and vanity. Dean MacCannell, […]
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Paul Theroux on the importance of traveling by road
Posted by mmallory in Jun, 2013
“Flying from one capital city to another is not travel to me. Travel, especially in Africa, must be overland and must involve the crossing of borders — negotiating on land, usually on foot, the national frontier. That experience teaches a great deal about the state of the country. Of course, it’s sometimes dangerous and always […]
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Phil Cousineau on the process of dreaming up journeys
Posted by mmallory in Jun, 2013
“Reading old travel books or novels set in faraway places, spinning globes, unfolding maps, playing world music, eating in ethnic restaurants, meeting friends in cafes whose calls hold the soul-talk of decades — all these things are part of never-ending travel practice, not unlike doing scales on a piano, shooting free-throws, or meditating. These are […]
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