Death Cab Says: You Are A Tourist

The one where I try, yet again, to make my triumphant return to blogging. Come on, get happy!

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Daily Inspiration: Led Zeppelin

This edition of the not-so Daily Inspiration brought to you by the one and only Led Zeppelin and a lovely candid photo of two of my nearest and dearest travelers, Andrea and Cat, in sand dunes of Mui Ne, Vietnam.

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Daily Inspiration: Rory MacLean

This entry for Daily Inspiration is brought to you by the best book I've read in a long time, by traveling writer Rory MacLean. Live it, learn it, love it.

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Daily Inspiration: Cesare Pavese

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things — air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky — all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”

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50th Post: My Bucket List Beginnings

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about long-term goals and the proverbial bucket list. Sure, there are tons of things that I want to do (or wanted and have since done them!), but I never really stopped to write them all down…until now.

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Daily Inspiration: Walt Whitman

From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. —Song of the Open Road, Walt Whitman

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Daily Inspiration: Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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

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Daily Inspiration: Tim Ferriss

After hearing so much about it and already scouring countless used bookstores throughout Thailand, I finally found it. Out of the corner of my eye in Back Street Books in Chiang Mai on Wednesday, I was able to buy a copy of "The 4-Hour Work Week" by Timothy Ferriss for just 300 baht.

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Daily Inspiration: Wolfmother

Since starting my trip, there have been certain songs that just stay on repeat. I discovered Wolfmother probably four or five years ago now — long before they showed up as tracks on Guitar Hero — after hearing that they had a sound like Led Zeppelin and an eclecticism unlike other bands popular at the time. Just over the summer, my favorite song by the band, "Vagabond" was featured in the "(500) Days of Summer" soundtrack (if you don't have it, download it). Give this song a listen and stay tuned for a post about my favorite travel songs that have and continue to inspire me, coming as soon as I can narrow my list of hundreds down to about 10.

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Daily Inspiration: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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