Tweets on a single topic ("Traveling with a Mission") published within a short period.
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Mar 19 2011: Always travel with a mission—some specific goal you want to achieve. Adventures can be found along the way, but the goal keeps you focussed. [view in context] 3522
Mar 19 2011: In my early days of travel, I had a simple mission: collect bumper stickers for my car. It was a silly goal, but it gave me structure. 3523
Mar 19 2011: When I travel today, my mission is usually to capture something on film. The experience of travel is secondary to what I record for others. 3524
Mar 19 2011: All sensory pleasures are ultimately hollow. They last for a few minutes then are gone, leaving you nothing. 3525
Mar 19 2011: I have no interest in local cuisine because the sensation is momentary at best and taste can't be captured on film. 3526
Mar 19 2011: Modern hedonism says the goal of travel is sensation and experience. Wrong! The goal is learning new skills to apply to future missions. 3527
Mar 19 2011: What good is a sensation that passes through you, leaving no trace behind? 3528
Mar 19 2011: "Oh, you're going to ___? You really must stop at ___ and try their ___!" Bullshit! That's just consumerism, not productive travel. 3529
Mar 19 2011: Consumerism is the illusion of accomplishment by buying, eating or experiencing something. Learning has no part in it. 3530
Mar 19 2011: The value of travel is not the sensations, scenery, meals or photos. It is how you were changed by the experience. 3531
Mar 19 2011: What you will learn from travel is by nature unpredictable. You can only predict that the destination will be new to you. 3532
Mar 19 2011: If a travel destination isn't in some way "exotic" to you—and a little frightening—what's the point in going there? 3533
Mar 19 2011: If you are returning to a vacation destination that is already known and predictable to you, then you have wasted a learning opportunity. 3534
Mar 19 2011: Packaged travel experiences gain you nothing. You'll come home the same person as you left. You could have stayed home and watched a video! 3535
Mar 19 2011: The greatest assets of experience are your mistakes, because that's where most learning occurs. 3536
Mar 19 2011: #### End. This has been a live 1-hour essay by the Bad Dalai Lama: "Travel" — From the base of Mt. Waialeale, Kauai. 3537
Mar 19 2011: Breakfast in the jungles of Kauai: vienna sausages, butterscotch pudding, saltine crackers, root beer barrels, diet Coke http://t.co/wqzLKZt 3538
Mar 19 2011: Vienna sausages are approximately the equivalent of dog food for humans. 3539
Mar 19 2011: Heading out on foot toward the caldera. Parts of Jurassic Park were filmed here. Watch out for velociraptors! http://t.co/la2Vn6Z 3540
Mar 19 2011: @MotherCatt "Your essay suggests we all travel and learn from it but not enjoy it." <== I think you're confusing enjoyment with consumption. 3541
Mar 19 2011: @MotherCatt Is there no other form of enjoyment? Can't learning be enjoyable? Aren't there sensations that leave a trace? 3542
Mar 19 2011: Most documentaries today are shot out-of-sequence (not in the order portrayed), meaning that it's basically "reality-based fiction". 3543
Mar 19 2011: End of the road! From this point on, I'm hiking an intermittent trail and in the stream bed itself. http://t.co/eSvzeoL 3544
Mar 19 2011: Another pair of Walmart shoes sacrificed to Nature. http://t.co/rbYClgN 3545
Mar 19 2011: Shrouded in the clouds ahead is Waialeale, the wettest spot on Earth. (Take THAT, tapuis!) http://t.co/KgwPCvg 3546
Mar 19 2011: Almost there! The base of crater is ahead. See the waterfalls! One of the most challenging hikes I have ever taken! http://t.co/PH7GeIY 3547
Mar 19 2011: Objective achieved: The Blue Hole! (crater of Waialeale) Took me 4 hours of treacherous hiking to get here. http://t.co/DBeDcx1 3548
Mar 19 2011: I was hoping to find a nymph in that pool, but no luck! (I did go swimming myself.) Now must head back before nightfall. http://t.co/l181JfP [view in context]
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