Tweets on a single topic ("The Challenge of Travel") published within a short period.
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Mar 22 2011: Today, I travel continuously and painlessly, but it took me years to get here. I had to get rid of a lot of stuff, not always by choice. [view in context] 3647
Mar 22 2011: The first half of life is spent accumulating stuff—physical stuff, emotional stuff. The second half is trying to get rid of it. 3648
Mar 22 2011: Travel isn't as easy as it seems. It's like someone putting a blank piece of paper in front of you and saying, "Write something!" 3649
Mar 22 2011: To travel independently, you need a good internal compass—to keep yourself moving toward a goal while pummeled by new sensations. 3650
Mar 22 2011: The key to successful travel in a strange place is to have concrete goals before you begin then sticking with them. 3651
Mar 22 2011: I travel easily, under conditions most would consider hardship, because I know what I want to accomplish. 3652
Mar 22 2011: To me, jumping from Istanbul to Rome to Hawaii seems as superficial as changing TV channels, because it doesn't change my core goals. 3653
Mar 22 2011: The younger me couldn't have jumped from place to place like I do. He had too much baggage (emotional and physical) and weak direction. 3654
Mar 22 2011: How many of us, thrown into a chaotic city like Bangkok, would know what to do with ourselves? 3655
Mar 22 2011: Ambitious plans made on the internet tend to fall apart in the chaos of a real place, 99% of which isn't on the Internet. 3656
Mar 22 2011: "America is the greatest country in the world!" — Believe that and you don't need to travel. Don't even need a passport, just FOX News. 3657
Mar 22 2011: Travel is life. 3658
Mar 22 2011: Even in one place, life is a journey. By learning to travel outwardly—to disorienting places—you are gaining skills for your other journeys. 3659
Mar 22 2011: Each of us is born into a set of assumptions about what in life is necessary. Travel crushes some of them, leaving only what is real. 3660
Mar 22 2011: The most important thing you learn from travel is what is the same everywhere. These are the true cornerstones of life. 3661
Mar 22 2011: #### End. This has been a live 1-hour essay from the Bad Dalai Lama: "Travel" (Sitting in front of Burger King in Lihue, Kuaui) 3662
Mar 22 2011: RT @trevlutz: @BadDalaiLama You can read all the books about Paris you want, but you can only see Paris by seeing Paris. 3663
Mar 22 2011: Local residents of the Burger King drive-thru. I'm luring them in with crackers, then... chicken dinner! http://t.co/hiLDIjT 3664
Mar 22 2011: The Spanish translation at the bottom is for the benefit of Hispanic Kuaui residents, of which there are seven. http://t.co/xWgMdaT 3665
Mar 22 2011: Abandoned sugar mill, Lihue. http://t.co/IvMTNAa 3666
Mar 22 2011: Dear Rod Stewart: You've been hung up on this Maggie bitch for FORTY YEARS! Get over it! You live and learn, dude. You move on! 3667
Mar 22 2011: Say it first; save the footnotes for later. 3668
Mar 22 2011: Young newlyweds leaving Kauai are all lovey-dovey. I hate to tell them that, statistically, their marriage is doomed, but someone has to! 3669
Mar 22 2011: Glimpse into the cockpit of a 757. http://t.co/ruCx1yS 3670
Mar 22 2011: RT @o6uoq: @BadDalaiLama if you want respect to talk about challenging travel, try Iraq or Sierra Leone. Now we're talking. 3671
Mar 22 2011: .@o6uoq: "If you want respect to talk about challenging travel, try Iraq or Sierra Leone." <== Not much point in learning if you're dead. 3672
Mar 22 2011: Ambitious travel plans made on the internet tend to fall apart in the chaos of a real place, 99% of which isn't on the Internet. [view in context]
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