Status Updates From Ten Years a Nomad: A Travel...

The provincial who cultivates only his roots is in peril, potato-like, of becoming more root than plant.
The man who cuts his away and denies
that they were ever connected with him withers into half a man.
- John Graves

“When people who live by conventions, rules, and molds find themselves dissatisfied, they’ll make themselves feel better not by pulling up stakes, but by running down those who do, and wishing—just wishing—that their own lives offered something more.”

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.