“Like us, many students had spent their years in college thinking they’d get that well-paying, planet-saving job, even if they’d heard horror stories from recent underemployed grads. Those jobs, of course, no longer exist (if they ever did). By 2009,… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
“I graduated on a May afternoon. When the director of ceremonies ended her speech, I had no desire to triumphantly fling my graduation cap into the air as a gesture of my newfound freedom. There was nothing liberating about leaving… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
“Perhaps there’s no better act of simplification than climbing a mountain. For an afternoon, a day, or a week, it’s a way of reducing… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
“... But these skeptics are only selectively skeptical. They think themselves enlightened for resisting all this new proof and remaining steadfast in mistrusting anything… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
“I learned such a glimpse cannot be gotten with half-hearted journeys and soft endeavors. Nor could I hope for such a glimpse merely by… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
“I felt a strange twinge of anger looking at the stars. It was as if I’d just learned of an inheritance that had been… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
“I could sense the slightest abridgment of my freedom like a princess who can feel the impression of a pea under forty featherbeds. I… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
“Like us, many students had spent their years in college thinking they’d get that well-paying, planet-saving job, even if they’d heard horror stories from… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
“I am a member of the “career-less generation.” Or the “screwed generation.” Unlike previous generations, the members of my generation won’t get jobs and… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, to cede control to fate, I realized, is to assume more control than ever before. I wasn’t just traveling anymore. I was traveling… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
“We have trains to hop, voyages to embark on, and rides to hitch. And then there’s the great American wild—vanishing but still there—ready to… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
“On this voyage, I couldn't help but think we need need. We need to be forced to go outside. We need to be forced… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
“Be a devotee in the Church of the Consumer and you’ll forever live in fear of the capricious God of Style. Freedom, though, is… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
“It was strange how it was always the poor who picked us up [hitchhiking]...They dwelled beneath poverty lines and were undereducated, but they were...more… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
![“It was strange how it was always the poor who picked us up [hitchhiking]...They dwelled beneath poverty lines and were undereducated, but they were...more civilized than the finely bred..for there is no demographic that has a sharper instinct for empathy than the downtrodden.” quote by Ken Ilgunas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3c4/ken-ilgunas-26210_poverty_it-was-strange-how-it-was-always-the-poo_811885.jpg)