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The Serious Travelers Manifesto: an anti-tourist philospohy

Who are serious travelers?
►serious travelers know that travel is a privilege of a gifted few—to be fully and thoughtfully enjoyed...
►serious travelers make each trip a true adventure of the mind, not just a vacation...
►serious travelers seek out authentic experiences and human interaction...
►serious travelers have been around the block a few times…
►serious travelers get off the beaten path to where few brave to wander...

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2012's GLOBAL TRAVEL INDICATORS POINT UP
  Los Angeles, CA (13 December 2011) – America's traditional blue-chip AAA’s Leisure Travel Index shows that more American's will be hitting the road this holiday season, but a deeper look into more 21st century mashup travel metrics point to an even bigger year for international travelers in 2012. The World's Greatest Travelers 2012 Aggregate Travel Metrics, as selected in...
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homo touristicus...Who we are & how we evolved!
The Age of Exploration may have ended long ago, but a new book on the history of travel and tourism will welcome the exploration of all travelconnoisseurs, trip writers, business road warriors, and armchair travelers everywhere. If you’re a serious traveler, you may have always wondered:       • Who took the first Romance Romps? See page 91.  ...
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“Take only memories. Leave nothing but footprints.”
- Chief Seattle (1780-1866)

"A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.”
– Socrates (469-399 BCE)

"People don’t take trips, trips take people.”
- John Steinbeck (1902-1968)

"What’s worse: suffering from homesickness while traveling, or wanderlust when not?"
- William D. Chalmers

"The world is a book, of which those who stay in one place read only one page."
- Augustine (354-430)

"Twenty years from now you’ll be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do, than by the ones you did."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
 

" Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by ."
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
 

"...remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable."
- Clifton Fadiman (1904-1999)

"Travel, at its best, is a process of continually conquering disbelief. "
- Michael Palin

" If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religions and avoid the people, you might better stay at home."
- James A. Michener (1907-1987)

“He who returns from a journey is not the same as he who left.”
- Chinese proverb

“Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.”
- Peter Høeg

“If you seek knowledge, go to the spring, not the fountain.”
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

“Don’t tell me how educated you are—tell me how much you have traveled.”
– Mohammed (570-632)

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
- Helen Keller (1880-1968)

“The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.”
- Joseph Campbell (1904-1987)

“Half the fun of travel is the esthetic of lostness.”
- Ray Bradbury

“Travel has never been so urgent, even necessary, as it is today.”
- Pico Iyer

"Traveling is like flirting with life.”
– Lisa St Aubin de Terán

“I travel to discover other states of mind.”
- V.S. Naipaul