found on
vagablogging.net:
travel pointers from catherine watson
(author of the book
roads less traveled: dispatches from the ends of the earth)
*go everywhere you can.
*be passionately curious.
*talk to everyone who’ll let you, especially the quiet people.
*stay till the bitter end. if the ceremonial lasts all day, so do you-you never know what’ll happen at the end.
*be able to turn on a dime. throw out your itinerary if something better comes along, and it always will.
**don’t sweat the small stuff-or the bad beds, or the bed bugs, or the wet shoes or whatever. the discomforts will pass, the shoes will dry, and the memories will last.**
*and maybe more than anything: commit to the trip. commit to the moment. really be there.