A couple of tentative thoughts:
Ted Simon - The hardest thing is getting out of your armchair to make a start. The rest is easy. Have the vision, the ambition, the desire. If you have that, the rest will happen. Without it, nothing will.
Traveling rarely changes anything but it does help put your own country and your own life in perspective and appreciate what you have more. It may also disrupt your prejudices about the superiority of your culture and world view.
The world isn't really getting smaller. We just travel across it faster. Leapfrogging the subtle shifts in ethnicity, culture, geography and climate that still exist far below our vapour trails.
Overlanding, whether to China on a bike or by foot to the local shops, gives you time to see the bits in between and see the context your life is lived in. It is the journey that is important not the destination.
Ted Simon - The hardest thing is getting out of your armchair to make a start. The rest is easy. Have the vision, the ambition, the desire. If you have that, the rest will happen. Without it, nothing will.
Traveling rarely changes anything but it does help put your own country and your own life in perspective and appreciate what you have more. It may also disrupt your prejudices about the superiority of your culture and world view.
The world isn't really getting smaller. We just travel across it faster. Leapfrogging the subtle shifts in ethnicity, culture, geography and climate that still exist far below our vapour trails.
Overlanding, whether to China on a bike or by foot to the local shops, gives you time to see the bits in between and see the context your life is lived in. It is the journey that is important not the destination.
