Why we travel
“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again — to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more. ”
Remembering Indo-China
It’s not even been a week since I returned from Indonesia , and I am restless again. This would be the first Sunday in almost two months, I would be spending away from a bus or train or plane. But the weekend won’t be a waste. I would be spending it to collate some material for a Indo-China “Travel Talk” I am doing at the library. I have been looking up my iPhoto attic for the dusty pictures that I took in Lao , Vietnam and Cambodia . It is nostalgia time. That quote by the way is from Pico Iyer.