Why travel now?

A question I've received a lot. I'll let the experts answer...

Why travel?

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.  Augustine

Most people are on the world, not in it--having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them--undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.  John Muir

When you travel you experience, in a very practical way, the act of rebirth. You confront completely new situations, the day passes more slowly, and on most journeys you don't even understand the language the people speak... You begin to be more accessible to others, because they may be able to help you in difficult situations.  Paulo Coelho

Why now?

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.   Mark Twain

Thus, when we allow ourselves to imagine as we once did, we know, with a sudden jarring clarity, that if we don't go right now, we're never going to do it. And we'll be haunted by our unrealized dreams and know that we have sinned against ourselves gravely.   Tim Cahill


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I guess the real question here is: why not?!

New Zealand, my first destination