By: Osho
Hey, let’s not diss Lonely Planet. I could have used a Lonely Planet guide when I was schlepping around India in the late 1960s-early 1970s. It is true that lemming tourism, as I call it, seems to be...
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Doesn’t matter. As soon as a prospective destination makes cottage cheese readily available and, more recently, as long as their are sufficient Internet cafe umbilical cords to the travelers’ home...
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Not everyone is cut out for adventure, and while they exasperate me, I still think there’s value in their seeing something of the world. “I admire explorers, but I like mapmakers better, as they...
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A wonderfully apropos quote. I can’t find the author either. Maybe it’s you. I’ve always liked traveling to exotic places in a state of abject ignorance. Maybe this remark points to part of the reason:...
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By: Collin Piprell
Easily the most-quoted “mapmaker” passage online is William Burroughs: “In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas … a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in...
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Besides which, I rarely seem to get farther afield than Villa Supermarket, these days, though it is true that the staff fuck with my head from time to time by moving everything around, maybe locating...
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