By Tom Thumb, Posted Mar 03, 2011
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Follow in the footsteps of the ancients… or blaze your own trail.
A journey takes you from a to z but the intervening letters can spell absolutely anything for the traveler – a rite of passage, a pilgrimage or just a mind blowing trip that ensures you’ll never be the same again.
As the world gradually sheds the legacy of tradition and ritual we’re left with few ways to mark the stages of our life other than to travel. Well, that and taking out a mortgage (literally ‘a debt unto death’)…
For too many, travel is all about jumping on a plane, dumping the bags at the hotel and heading out with the camera to see the sights. Even the more conscious backpacker will tend to bum around hostels, follow the same old tired traveler route and spend more time in internet cafes than really putting himself out there.
Making a great journey is really committing to changing a part of yourself (but why change perfection?). Journeying can be tough going, rough on the body and the soul and full of inexplicable delays and obstacles. It encourages faith in the unbeliever, strength in the weak and a sense of mystery and magic in the cynic.
What’s more, it helps you get laid when you finally reach those backpacker cafes at the end of it all…
Here’s ten ideas for making a great voyage of discovery – so what if thousands made it before, your journey will be unique. Grab a flag and some beads with you just in case you need to trade with the natives…
So here’s ten ideas for making a great voyage of discovery – so what if thousands made it before, your journey will be unique – so take a flag and some beads with you just in case you need to trade with the natives…
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Hand to Mouth to India is the tale of when I hitchhiked from England to India at the age of 20 with no money at all.
Passing through England, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and finally arriving in Goa where I slept on the beach all season and wrote the book.
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Tales of a Road Junky covers the last 12 years of my journeys around the world. telling the tale of coming of age in the Goa trance scene, rescuing foreign prisoners in Delhi, selling fake Rolex watches in the street in Tokyo, getting into trouble with the medicine mafia in Brazil and delving deep into the heart of Israelity in the Promised Land.
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Imagine you, the room you’re in, the planet and everyone in it were all just a Story, figments of imagination in the mind of a Storyteller. But with Hoomanity set on self-destruction, the Storyteller’s health begins to fail and if he should die, what would become of the Story that he tells?
All hope for our world lies in the hands of a 9 year old boy and a foolish Bloon…
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