Primarily, I found the first quote from the article really engaging, making me want to read on to better understand what it meant: “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves.” Further into the text,......Read More

Madonna in an Islamic country, after all, sounds radically different from Madonna in a Confucian one, and neither begins to mean the same as Madonna on East 14th Street.   Besides, even those who don’t move around the world find the world......Read More

Travel, then, is a voyage into that famously subjective zone, the imagination, and what the traveler brings back is — and has to be — an ineffable compound of himself and the place, what’s really there and what’s only in him....Read More

“travel spins us round in two ways at once: It shows us the sights and values and issues that we might ordinarily ignore; but it also, and more deeply, shows us all the parts of ourselves that might otherwise grow rusty.”...Read More

“…travel, at heart, is just a quick way to keeping our minds mobile and awake.”...Read More

“…joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, and seeing everything I thought I knew in a different light, and from a crooked angle.” “Travel is the best way we have of rescuing......Read More

“If a Mongolian restaurant seems exotic to us in Evanston, Ill., it only follows that a McDonald’s would seem equally exotic in Ulan Bator — or, at least, equally far from everything expected.”...Read More

Hi all, Welcome to your first Yak post. This is the media that we will use throughout our journey to communicate with each other and our Dragons’ partners during our pre-course preparation, and with our families while we’re in Bolivia.......Read More