Comments on: best reasons to travel http://global-culture.org/best-reasons-to-travel/ Sustainable, Memorable, Livable Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:40:30 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: “i could live here” http://global-culture.org/best-reasons-to-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-119702 “i could live here” Thu, 14 May 2009 06:06:33 +0000 http://global-culture.org/blog/2007/07/07/best-reasons-to-travel/#comment-119702 [...] is what matters, even if millions of people have had the same opportunity. While exploring the best reasons to travel I had emphasized the quest for the “experience”: The tourist that never leaves the [...] [...] is what matters, even if millions of people have had the same opportunity. While exploring the best reasons to travel I had emphasized the quest for the “experience”: The tourist that never leaves the [...]

]]> By: gregorylent http://global-culture.org/best-reasons-to-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-119618 gregorylent Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:06:49 +0000 http://global-culture.org/blog/2007/07/07/best-reasons-to-travel/#comment-119618 globalization is what nature is/does and is fine, unavoidable, how reality is ... by pollution i am talking about tourist ghettos, and every ill that goes along with them, some of which are here, http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2008/12/29/seven-reasons-why-foreign-travel-is-unethical/ and a lot more .. ecosystems have more importance than we think, both natural and cultural ones... big subject here ... enjoy, gregory lent globalization is what nature is/does and is fine, unavoidable, how reality is …

by pollution i am talking about tourist ghettos, and every ill that goes along with them, some of which are here, http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2008/12/29/seven-reasons-why-foreign-travel-is-unethical/

and a lot more .. ecosystems have more importance than we think, both natural and cultural ones…

big subject here …

enjoy, gregory lent

]]> By: juan http://global-culture.org/best-reasons-to-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-119617 juan Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:11:23 +0000 http://global-culture.org/blog/2007/07/07/best-reasons-to-travel/#comment-119617 Gregory: I believe by cultural pollution you may refer to the old debate of globalization and its effect on cultures. Interestingly enough, that debate was a common theme in the early days of this blog, but as you can see the discourse as evolved into sharing a global culture. When we travel we blur the line that separates our culture from the one we visit. As long as we are careful not to fall into the usual tourist traps, that integration of cultures expands both ends, doesn't it? Gregory: I believe by cultural pollution you may refer to the old debate of globalization and its effect on cultures. Interestingly enough, that debate was a common theme in the early days of this blog, but as you can see the discourse as evolved into sharing a global culture. When we travel we blur the line that separates our culture from the one we visit. As long as we are careful not to fall into the usual tourist traps, that integration of cultures expands both ends, doesn’t it?

]]> By: gregorylent http://global-culture.org/best-reasons-to-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-119606 gregorylent Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:45:20 +0000 http://global-culture.org/blog/2007/07/07/best-reasons-to-travel/#comment-119606 "the desire to travel is just the desire to expand consciousness" .. maharishi mahesh yogi, 1972 cool, and now about the cultural pollution of consuming travel as a trendy lifestyle "experience" that expands nothing? “the desire to travel is just the desire to expand consciousness” .. maharishi mahesh yogi, 1972

cool, and now about the cultural pollution of consuming travel as a trendy lifestyle “experience” that expands nothing?

]]> By: Jeremy Bohall http://global-culture.org/best-reasons-to-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-119366 Jeremy Bohall Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:06:13 +0000 http://global-culture.org/blog/2007/07/07/best-reasons-to-travel/#comment-119366 Well said! Mark Twain remarked that "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness". I think that sums it up well. Well said! Mark Twain remarked that “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness”. I think that sums it up well.

]]> By: Waderlust http://global-culture.org/best-reasons-to-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-118902 Waderlust Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:53:22 +0000 http://global-culture.org/blog/2007/07/07/best-reasons-to-travel/#comment-118902 I think Pico Iyer best described why it is we travel. "We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again -- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more." I think Pico Iyer best described why it is we travel.

“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again — to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”

]]> By: wanderer http://global-culture.org/best-reasons-to-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-36947 wanderer Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:51:09 +0000 http://global-culture.org/blog/2007/07/07/best-reasons-to-travel/#comment-36947 it's really the same thing in my mind...we define ourselves in terms of a collective identity opposed to some phantomatic form of the Other, be it an opposing culture or person, therefore meeting that Other and understanding it better fundamentalley changes ourselves... it’s really the same thing in my mind…we define ourselves in terms of a collective identity opposed to some phantomatic form of the Other, be it an opposing culture or person, therefore meeting that Other and understanding it better fundamentalley changes ourselves…

]]> By: juan http://global-culture.org/best-reasons-to-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-36755 juan Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:29:18 +0000 http://global-culture.org/blog/2007/07/07/best-reasons-to-travel/#comment-36755 Dear wanderer: Great quote. I can imagine the next two lines of it going something like this: "for we used to live here but only now we can call it home" There is a hint that this exploration may also be at a personal level and in fact I do believe that travel has that effect on people. Dear wanderer:

Great quote. I can imagine the next two lines of it going something like this:

“for we used to live here
but only now we can call it home”

There is a hint that this exploration may also be at a personal level and in fact I do believe that travel has that effect on people.

]]> By: wanderer http://global-culture.org/best-reasons-to-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-36446 wanderer Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:51:25 +0000 http://global-culture.org/blog/2007/07/07/best-reasons-to-travel/#comment-36446 I think travelling is best described in this quote from T.S. Eliot: "We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time." I think travelling is best described in this quote from T.S. Eliot:

“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”

]]> By: Brush away the cobwebs from your daydreams » Blog Archive » links for 2007-07-08 http://global-culture.org/best-reasons-to-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-36341 Brush away the cobwebs from your daydreams » Blog Archive » links for 2007-07-08 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 02:31:03 +0000 http://global-culture.org/blog/2007/07/07/best-reasons-to-travel/#comment-36341 [...] Global Culture ¬ª best reasons to travel When Josh asked me why I want so badly to travel internationally… this is how I MEANT to answer. (tags: travel) [...] [...] Global Culture ¬ª best reasons to travel When Josh asked me why I want so badly to travel internationally… this is how I MEANT to answer. (tags: travel) [...]

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