Category: Travel
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Travel: More Than Ever a Fool’s Paradise
Kim du Toit: I’m not sure I want to travel internationally again. Me too. Been there, done that. One of his reasons: . . . we all know how the Filth in Britishland regard the matter of self-defense Over There. Nothing puts a damper on the travel experience like having to explain to some judge…
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A Test for Marital Compatibility
Sage Substack advice. Hit the road with your bride-to-be and see if she can take a little hard travelin'. A reader comments: I tried something similar in the summer of '79. The girlfriend was Juanita, Sicilian by lineage and temperament, a Tae Kwon champion, and a commercial pilot. I proposed a drive to…
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Travel and the Indifference of Places
Malcolm Pollack writing from Ha Long Bay, near Hanoi, Vietnam: . . . mainly I’m writing just now to note how little enthusiasm I have for travel these days. I’ve been all over the place in my lengthening life (I’ll be 69 in April), and more and more it seems to me that every place…
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On Travel
Travel introduces a salutary perturbation into one's quotidian orbit. It reduces self-satisfied complacency, putting in its place a useful unease. Useful for what? For a renewed seriousness in pursuit of what finally matters. This is why it is good for the soul.
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Thoughts in and of Ancient Lycia
From my Turkish journal, 22 February 1996. Leader of the Stack.
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Travel
Mention that you are travelling abroad, and you might get the slightly hostile response, "Have you seen your own country?" Such a reaction is likely to come from one of Hillary Clinton's so-called 'deplorables.' These are typically people who, apart from military service, have never been out of their home country. They tend to be…
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Three Reasons to Stay Home
These days I have money to travel, time, and opportunities. In close communion with my 'inner Kantian,' however, I resist the blandishments and with them the vexations of spatial translation. By my present count, there are three chief reasons to keep to my Southwestern Koenigsberg, the Emersonian, the Pascalian, and my own. The first is that travel…
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Thoughts in and of Ancient Lycia, Asia Minor
From my Turkish journal, 22 February 1996: Phaselis is a romantic tangle of Graeco-Roman ruins in a beautiful natural setting. I hiked back into the brush, got scratched up, but was rewarded by ruins and views out to the Mediterranean, and up to snow-capped mountains. From Phaselis to the resort town of Kemer. I am…
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A Couple of Venice Characters I Met While Working for Manpower
Bill Keezer e-mails re: my Manpower post: I think it would be good for all young men somewhere in their early years to have to work for Manpower. It might give them more appreciation of what they have. It also might teach them something useful. I remember my various Manpower stints with some pleasure. I…
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Journeys and Preparations
We plan our journeys long and short. We lay our plans for trips abroad well in advance. And those who leave their homeland and emigrate to another country take special care. Why then are we so careless about the journey on which all must embark and none return? "Because it is a journey into sheer…
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Travel
Travel is no alleviation of travail but a form of it.
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The Young and the Reckless: The Cautionary Deaths of Jay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan
To live well, one must take risks. To live long they must be calculated in a calculus informed by knowledge of self and knowledge of world. Let the romantic in one be tempered by the realist to avoid the fates of Christopher McCandless, Timothy Treadwell, and Jay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan: Asked why they had…
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SCOTUS Rules 5-4 to Uphold ‘Muslim’ Travel Ban
Yet another victory for President Trump and for common sense. And yet another embarrassment for the Never-Trumpers who refused to support Trump and who, by their refusal, indirectly supported Hillary who would never have supported any such travel ban. And of course, if the Never-Trumpers had their way, the composition of the Court would not…
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On Travel
A man does not escape his trials by travel. He merely gives them a change of venue.
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Travel
Travel can be good when it is a flight from the familiar that breaks the complacency of the daily round to expose the insecurity ever present but hidden by and behind the quotidian.