❝I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You’re going to get a sense of what globalization looks like. It’s not what Tom Friedman writes about; I’m sorry. You’re going to see that global climate change is very real. And that for some people, their day consists of walking 12 miles for four buckets of water. And so there are lessons that you can’t get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people—Americans and Europeans—come back and go, ohhhhh. And the light bulb goes on.

— Henry Rollins (via goombi)

(Source: runouttheguns, via goombi)

Back from Europe trip — I survived

That was one hell of a trip. Too overwhelming for words. Travelling alone is great but ain’t easy at times. Four weeks is not that long at all compared to people going on for months but nevertheless I’ve learned so much (cliché? I know) and met many great people.

I must say I’m glad to be back though. I’m exhausted!!!!

No Tumblr for the next 23 days

I’m off to my Europe trip in 8 hours

• Paris
• Berlin
• Prague
• Rome
• Florence
• Venice

A little nervous as I’ll be soloing the whole trip (what what!) but super excited as I’ve been anticipating this for quite a while.

Wish me all the luck I need to travel safely and not lose anything important or get mugged!