The unfamiliarity of travel jolts you out of your familiar patterns. Who we are on the road is different from who we are at home. I don’t know if who we are on the road is closer to our real self than who we are at home


“if discontent is your disease, travel is medicine. It resensitizes. It opens you up to see outside the patterns you follow. Because new places require new learning.”
― To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
― To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret

“Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.”
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“Without travel, without adventure and without wilderness, I am nothing.”
― Up: My Life’s Journey to the Top of Everest
― Up: My Life’s Journey to the Top of Everest
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