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If you don't learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you'll never be able to go anywhere interesting or do anything interesting.

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Here was something I already knew to be true about myself: Just as there are some wives who will occasionally need a break from their husbands in orde...more

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I had long ago learned that when you are the giant, alien visitor to a remote and foreign culture it is sort of your job to become an object of ridicu...more

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My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with mishaps, di...more

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I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic system was (rightfully) dism...more

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to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.

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Not town can live peacefully, whatever its laws," Plato wrote, "when its citizens ... do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the ca...more

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... to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.

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What is it about the American obsession with productivity and responsibility that makes it so difficult for us to allow ourselves a little time to sol...more

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Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband's voice ...more

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When you are walking down the road in Bali and your pass a stranger, the very first question he or she will ask you is, "Where are you going?" The sec...more