Vagabonding

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  2. A vacation, after all, merely rewards work. Vagabonding justifies it.

    Vagabonding – Rolf Potts

  3. The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they really are.

    Samuel Johnson, Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson

  4. The traveller sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.

    G. K. Chesterton

  5. Tourists don’t know where they’ve been; travelers don’t know where they’re going.

    Paul Theroux

  6. Indeed, if travel is a process that helps you “find yourself,” it’s because it leaves you with nothing to hide behind – it yanks you out from the realm of rehearsed responses and dull comforts, and forces you into the present. Here, in the fleeting moment, you are left to improvise, to come to terms with your raw, true Self.

    Rolf Potts, Vagabonding

  7. What we know as personal travel, after all, is the historical legacy not of exploration or commerce but of pilgrimage – the nonpolitical, nonmaterial quest for private discovery and growth.

    Rolf Potts, Vagabonding