Travel Tales Thoughts on Coming Home (Part 5): The Journey Continues Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves… Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. – Rainer Maria Rilke As I sat down to write Thoughts on Coming Written by Matthew February 17, 2013August 12, 2013
Travel Tales Thoughts on Coming Home (Part 3): These Things Traveling Taught “I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.” – Lillian Smith, American writer This is Part 3 of a 5-part piece called Thoughts on Coming Home. After a long journey like mine, it Written by Matthew January 30, 2013August 12, 2013
Travel Tales The Scariest Place “All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.” – Niccolò Machia Written by Matthew December 20, 2012June 12, 2013
Travel Tales The Best European Cities No One Talks About “The map? I will first make it.” – Patrick White, Australian author, from Voss Throughout this journey, people always ask “So Matt, what’s your favorite destination so far?” To avoid overanalyzing myself into a seizure, I always default to Iceland. It was an adre Written by Matthew November 9, 2012April 29, 2014
Travel Tales Freedom Lost, Freedom Found & The Best Hostel Ever! (If You’re a D-Bag) “When you travel alone, you’re never alone.” – Some creepy, shirtless, old guy laying in his hostel bed in Galway, to me, upon hearing I was traveling alone. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana, philosoph Written by Matthew October 26, 2012August 1, 2015
Book Reviews Vagabonding Review: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts "Long-term travel isn’t about being a college student; it’s about being a student of daily life. Long-term travel isn’t an act of rebellion against society; it’s an act of common sense within society. Long-term travel doesn’t require a massive “bundle of cash”; it requires only that we Written by Matthew September 4, 2012September 12, 2016
Travel Tales An Outsider’s Look Inside the World of Hitchhiking “I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.” – Douglas Adams, author of The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy One sunny Friday afternoon in Vilnius, Lithuania, I walked to one of my favorite Coffee Inns in Old Town, ordered a kav Written by Matthew August 30, 2012September 4, 2013
Travel Tales Cheap Beer, 15-Year-Old Olympians, and Big Z: A Few Reasons to Love Lithuania "There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign." - Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. Three months ago, I had no intention of stepping foot in Lithuania. Honestly, I would have been hard pressed to find Lithuania on a map. But as I f Written by Matthew August 23, 2012June 12, 2013
Travel Tales Conquering The Fear of Missing Out “He remained annoyed with himself until he realized that not knowing what he wanted was actually quite natural. We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.” – Milan Kundera, Written by Matthew August 16, 2012September 4, 2013