“Some people you meet will lead lives wildly different from yours, and others will be eerily similar. You will find that friendship is universal; that language barriers are easy to overcome; that no matter...
“But just because you can drive up to this rarefied atmosphere doesn’t mean you don’t have to earn it. Highway 5 from Echo Lake to the summit is not for the faint of heart.”...
“I wanted a little of that swagger that comes with being able to gaze at a far horizon through eyes of chipped granite and say with a slow, manly sniff, “Yeah, I’ve shit in...
On the way, we passed a truck that had crashed into the ditch by the side of the road. We climbed up on to it to take a picture before realising the driver was...
All affiliate links in this post are mine, so if you choose to purchase something using one of these links, I get a small percentage. Travel Books to Read While a few places in...
Old bureaucrat, my comrade, it is not you who are to blame. No one ever helped you to escape. […] Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay...
Adults who are racked with death anxiety are not odd birds who have contracted some exotic disease, but men and women whose family and culture have failed to knit the proper protective clothing for...
Mark, you can’t finish the Inca Trail and not know that this was the endpoint of a pilgrimmage. John Leviers, Turn Right at Machu Picchu Book Info Author: Mark Adams Published: 2011 Geographic Area:...
Book Info Author: The Lonely Planet Team Published: 2015 Geographic Area: Worldwide Original Language: English My Thoughts I’ve always been interested in rankings. What’s the tallest building, the biggest desert, the hottest place, etc....
The closer we came into contact with the sea and what had its home there, the less strange it became and the more at home we ourselves felt. And we learned to respect the...
One of the most memorable moments I’ve had travelling cost nothing but the gumption to walk into the square that night. Tom Hall, The Best Things in Life Are Free Book Info Author: The...
The trains contain the essential paraphernalia of the culture: Thai trains have the shower jar with the glazed dragon on its side, Ceylonese ones the car reserved for Buddhist monks, Indian ones a vegetarian...
Book Info Author: Phil Stanton, and the Rough Guides Team Published: First Edition, 2007; Second Edition, 2010; Third Edition, 2016 Geographic Area: Worldwide Original Language: English Synopsis Some of you may have heard of...
What is it that these white people did? Why is it so important for their tribe to find them? Comaeda Bakairi, one of the last people to see Percy Fawcett alive Book Info Author:...
The A to Z format allowed us to view the world with a pleasing kind of egalitarianism, giving equal weight to superpowers like the United States of America and less high-profile nations like Burkina...
