Rewards for Travelers of Time and Patience
>> July 22, 2010
Two key ingredients which we have found for enjoying and getting the most out of your travel are patience and time.
One must have the patience to enjoy your time. And you get more time with patience. We have been told this any number of ways by other travelers and locals we met.
A reader may be surprised to know that we cannot describe with any confidence places that we have been in Japan, Italy, Egypt or the Balkans (and yet, we have impressions and still might recommend them).
Due to our impatience or to a lack of time when visiting these wonderful lands, the times there have faded quickly. What we do have from each are place markers signaling to return whenever we can.
But, could we have done any differently?
There are experiences which linger. Even in Morocco, where I am writing now, I might best describe a moment, a sound. We just have acquired enough patience to be in a new land.
We have still not described above what is for time to come to a traveler. But, finding time or living it - it has its own rewards.
Time is strange. Time is often blurred with jetlag, different daylights, late nights, or morning confusion waking up to an uncertain new space. It is lit up, fluorescent, flickering, passing.
Time is never within our control - and that is its reward. Time is less our control while traveling. It will take place when we let it, no sooner.
The rewards of these qualities which are critical to finding your way out of tourism and into new forms of in-place, culturally contacted, and local travel are Time and Patience.
It is hard to visit any place quickly and get more than cursory glances of a passer-by, [train] stations, and blurry highways.
Being patient, however, earns friendship and respect abroad.
[This blog I would partly connect to not traveling as light as possible - more weight on your shoulders (or precious cargo) - less inspirationally jumping to places without planning. Time is patient.]
One must have the patience to enjoy your time. And you get more time with patience. We have been told this any number of ways by other travelers and locals we met.
A reader may be surprised to know that we cannot describe with any confidence places that we have been in Japan, Italy, Egypt or the Balkans (and yet, we have impressions and still might recommend them).
Due to our impatience or to a lack of time when visiting these wonderful lands, the times there have faded quickly. What we do have from each are place markers signaling to return whenever we can.
But, could we have done any differently?
There are experiences which linger. Even in Morocco, where I am writing now, I might best describe a moment, a sound. We just have acquired enough patience to be in a new land.
We have still not described above what is for time to come to a traveler. But, finding time or living it - it has its own rewards.
Time is strange. Time is often blurred with jetlag, different daylights, late nights, or morning confusion waking up to an uncertain new space. It is lit up, fluorescent, flickering, passing.
Time is never within our control - and that is its reward. Time is less our control while traveling. It will take place when we let it, no sooner.
The rewards of these qualities which are critical to finding your way out of tourism and into new forms of in-place, culturally contacted, and local travel are Time and Patience.
It is hard to visit any place quickly and get more than cursory glances of a passer-by, [train] stations, and blurry highways.
Being patient, however, earns friendship and respect abroad.
[This blog I would partly connect to not traveling as light as possible - more weight on your shoulders (or precious cargo) - less inspirationally jumping to places without planning. Time is patient.]
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