In the travellers’ world, social media have enlarged the generation gap. The internet has brought a change in the very concept of travel as a process taking one away from the familiar into the unknown. Now the familiar is not left behind and the unknown has become familiar even before one leaves home. Unpredictability — to my generation the salt that gave travelling its savour — seems unnecessary if not downright irritating to many of the young. The sunset challenge — where to sleep? — has been banished by the ease of booking into a hostel or organised campsite with a street plan provided by the internet. Moreover, relatives and friends evidently expect regular reassurance about the traveller’s precise location and welfare — and vice versa, the traveller needing to know that all is well back home. Notoriously, dependence on instant communication with distant family and friends is known to stunt the development of self-reliance. Perhaps that is why, amongst younger travellers, one notices a new timidity. Dervla Murphy
If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.
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Dr. Seuss
You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you...
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Darren Shan
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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Michel De Montaigne
You don't have to worry about burning bridges, if you're building your own
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Kerry E. Wagner
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In the travellers’ world, social media have enlarged the generation gap. The internet has brought a change in the very concept of travel as a process taking one away from the familiar into the unknown. Now the familiar is not left behind and the unknown...
If I Am murdered en route it will have been well worth while!
