When we grow up in one place, that becomes the norm for which we measure the world. When I was a child, that world was a place of four seasons; a place where people communicated in one language; a place I felt comfortable camping in the forests. Pennsylvania was a four-hour drive away from the [...] Read more »
Walking—the Best Way to Experience Place
Trains are too romantic. Buses don’t stop enough. Motorcycles too fast. And forget about planes. But not walking. “Walking reminds us of who we are.” says Paul Theroux in an interview about his new book, The Tao of Travel. We feel the earth beneath our feet while walking. We are one with the weather. We need [...] Read more »
The Place vs Our Experience in that Place
Last week’s Travel Philosophy Friday post It won’t be like I remembered it make me think about place and the way we view that place after our experience there. In other words, place versus our experience in that place. Although spending a cold and rainy three days there, I left Copenhagen, thinking “Man, I love [...] Read more »
It won’t be like I remembered it
In response to last week’s Where’s your old home?, Juno Kim mentioned in the comments that she might be afraid to return to New Zealand because “it would change everything”. I think she was worried that it wouldn’t be the same New Zealand she remembered when and if she returned. That is one important thing [...] Read more »
Where’s your old home?
Nineteenth century scholar Max Mueller said that by going to India, we are returning to our “old home” full of memories, if only we can read them. I believe we all have an old home, not necessarily India, but someplace, some part of the earth where we feel particularly drawn to or some culture that [...] Read more »