The longer you drift the more you will learn. What you learn affects the kind of person you end up turning into.

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate lovingly, our own

The life & the travel comprehends the deepest mysteries, All you need to have is keen eyes

I've been learning Spanish for five years so hopefully I'll be able to travel. I've been to Italy on a school trip but that's about it.

occasionally we can pause and take a breath
this is especially a great time to re-center or focus
at times from normal life events we might drift unaware,
then in turn allow direction to our happy kind of island, ....

Be culturally literate, because if you don't have any understanding of the world you live in and the culture you live in, you're not going to express anything to anybody else.