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• Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.
• We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love…
• In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our…
• Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and…
• My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me…
• Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice
• Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The…
• Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.
• None of the things in life - like love or faith - was arrived at by thinking; indeed, one could almost define…
• Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are lost when…
• Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.
• One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.

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