Paul Theroux’s “The Tao of Travel” was a goldmine of perspectives on the subject. While I did write a review on GoodReads, I really didn’t stuff it with quotes as I would have liked. 🙂 But since this is more of a chronicle, I can afford the liberty here.
“You go away for a long time and return a different person – you never come all the way back.” Paul Theroux
“Travel is flight and pursuit in equal parts.” Paul Theroux
“I think I spend more time thinking about what I don’t want to take with me: assumptions, iPods, cameras, plans, friends, (in most cases) laptops…… expectations.” Pico Iyer
“Unfortunately, the sort of individual who is programmed to ignore personal distress and keep pushing for the top is frequently programmed to disregard signs of grave and imminent danger as well. This forms the nub of a dilemma that every Everest climber eventually coms up against: in order to succeed you must be exceedingly driven, but if you’re too driven you’re likely to die.” Jon Krakauer
“My own feeling is that city dwellers invent the cities they dwell in. The great cities are just too big to be comprehended as a whole, so they are invisible, or imaginary, existing mainly in the mind.” Paul Theroux
“Travel is one of the saddest pleasures of life.” Madame de StaĂ«l
“I tend to think that happiness is a particular time in a particular place..” Paul Theroux
“It sometimes seems to me that if there is a fundamental quest in travel, it is the search for the unexpected.” Paul Theroux
until next time, wanderlust
Nice 🙂