Pici passi. Un viagio in bici xe fato de pici passeti. I pici passi te permeti, co te entri int’un paeseto, de entrarghe veramente, de sentirlo tuo, de respirar a pieni polmoni la sua atmosfera,...

I knew I could always earn money from a job. What I didn’t know was could I extend the dream of writing beyond my trip?

For all the energy directed toward the stratagem of big city living, New Yorkers are never too distracted to respond to, and more often, proactively assist visitors. Tourists tracing the routes of subway maps with...

…because life is too exciting not to share.

Find your path in life and travel on it.

Tout les jours you are coming some fresh game or other on me, mais vous ne pouvez pas play this savon dodge on me twice!

Travel has a way of making the world a much smaller place.

If you’ve broken any promises you’ve made to yourself, now is the time to make up for it.

If it’s true we only live once, then raise your red velvet curtain every chance you get.

Focus on your destination but enjoy every sacred moments of the journey

Look beyond now.The road ahead offers a good voyage.

…what I’m getting at is like the distinction between tourist and a traveler. The tourist experience is superficial and glancing. The traveler develops a deeper connection with her surroundings. She is more invested in them...

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

Solo” by contrast, is a willful decision to be the architect of our own experience.

No matter how many strikes are hurled at you, only you decide when you’re out.

All that old road of the past unreeling dizzily as if the cup of life had been overturned and everything gone mad. My eyes ached in nightmare day (235).

Learning voyage, the greatest adventure.

Saya awam soal mendaki gunung, tapi itu bukan berarti tidak bisa dilakukan.

As Thoreau famously sead, it doesn’t matter where or how far you go – the farther commonly the worse – the important thing is how alive you are. Writing of every kind is a way...

If asked which words one associated with the Sahara, only the most dedicated surrealist might be expected to offer “whale”.

How do you keep from getting lonely? Don’t you feel self-conscious eating out alone?” After the first 30 emails like these I thought, There’s a book here. It would be eight years before I published...

By necessity, we are direct and swift in speech and movement. This is the true dynamic that underlies our apocryphal rudeness. Also true: we do not make eye contact. Neither do we encourage it. Consider...

Life vicariously through yourself.

Define your path and travel on this path.

The River Mogami has drownedFar and deepBeneath its surging wavesThe flaming sun of summer

What I’ve learned in my travels is that people are more alike than they are different. Yes, I may have a different home or lifestyle than a mom living in Shanghai, but deep down we...

Be courageous: be still.

When life hands you lemons, why stop at lemonade? Create an entire product line.

Great places, great memories.

Keep traveling, even if you don’t know where the road will end.

The mixed blessing of a cruise of any kind but especially a river cruise, is that one gets to see a little of everything, but not enough of one thing. It’s the soup course of...

A bare two years after Vasco da Gama’s voyage a Portuguese fleet led by Pedro Alvarez Cabral arrived on the Malabar coast. Cabral delivered a letter from the king of Portugal to the Samudri (Samudra-raja...

Wandering is not limited to geography. Also an altered state of consciousness, it allows a disembodied self to drift on currents of collective awareness with minimal attachment to the physical world. This state of wander...

Stay open. You may find your tribe where you least expect it.

You have to taste a culture to understand it.

Science rock: The pursuit of science, lead us to the beautiful places of the world.

I like the idea that when I die, I will have a long sit-down chat withGod and get answers to all my questions. For example, those apple coresthat I threw out of car windows when...

Twitter proved without a shadow of a doubt it is much more than a social network, but a user-defined infrastructure that can be harnessed to change lives and expectations, to share and enhance unique experiences...

It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.

In 2006 I had begun the discernment process for locating my rightful geographic home. By the time my corporate pink slip arrived I had spent two years researching and taking recon trips to five different...

Though I have not lived in New York City for more than two decades, these storytellers – from the United States, Britain and Canada – have touched my heart with their openness, inspired me with...

There are no tips for life neither for travelling

Everywhere you travel to, be fully there.

And yet on that bench at Jacobacci, I was glad I had left everyone else behind. Although this was a town with a main street and a railway station, and people with dogs and electric...

Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations.

Be who you are. You may not always please but you will never go wrong.

Want more fizz in your life? Shake things up.

After every voyage, we bring with us renewed mind, refreshed soul and new viewpoints on life.

Your inner light is greater than the darkness.May your light shine brightly in every path you travel.

Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and...