"I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown, eat interesting food, dig some interesting people, have an adventure, be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You’re going to get a sense of what globalization looks like. It’s not what Tom Friedman writes about, I’m sorry. You’re going to see that global climate change is very real. And that for some people, their day consists of walking twelve miles for four buckets of water. And so there are lessons that you can’t get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people — Americans and Europeans — come back and go, “Ohhhh.” And the lightbulb goes on."

Henry Rollins 

(so very true) 

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9,611 notes | Posted May 6, 13

"Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused."
Paulo Cuelho

3 notes | Posted May 3, 13 #quote

"Absence diminishes minor passions and inflames great ones, as the wind douses a candle and fans a fire."
La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680

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7knotwind:

Nicholas Burroughs

7knotwind:

Nicholas Burroughs

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452 notes | Posted Mar 29, 13

Long distance is the wrong distance…

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nationalgeographicdaily:

Emperor Penguin, AntarcticaPhoto: Paul Nicklen

nationalgeographicdaily:

Emperor Penguin, Antarctica
Photo: Paul Nicklen

310 notes | Posted Mar 27, 13

Oh panda cakes! I likey…. >_<

Oh panda cakes! I likey…. >_<

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130 notes | Posted Mar 23, 13

Sagada dream travel…

Sagada… my dream travel.  I have only heard about Sagada in tales from my family and friends, read in the news paper, saw on a travel logs online and yes… even followed updates on twitter. Of all the other places to visit, why the northern region far off…

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Posted Mar 12, 13

I am always reminded of that special person when looking at sunsets.

I am always reminded of that special person when looking at sunsets.

Posted Mar 10, 13 #sunset #picture #palawan #philippines

A reason for guys to get into skimboarding&#8230; Chicks dig it. Heh.

A reason for guys to get into skimboarding… Chicks dig it. Heh.

1 note | Posted Mar 10, 13 #skim #skimboarding #skimboarder #chicks

San Marcelino, Zambales - forestry by the rivermouth.

San Marcelino, Zambales - forestry by the rivermouth.

7 notes | Posted Mar 2, 13 #forestry #nature #trees #clouds #sky

Zambales - Philippines: Pundaquit mountain and San Marcelino coastline

Zambales - Philippines: Pundaquit mountain and San Marcelino coastline

Posted Mar 2, 13 #Philippines #Zambales #beach #clouds #nature

Off to a new adventure&#8230;

Off to a new adventure…

Posted Mar 2, 13 #clouds #planeride

Alon skimboarders ripping it!

Alon skimboarders ripping it!

2 notes | Posted Mar 2, 13 #skim #skimboarding #skimboarder #waveride

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Instagramming from North Korea, with @dguttenfelder

See more of David’s photos from the DPRK by following him on Instagram: @dguttenfelder.

It’s not every day that you see first-hand scenes from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), and you’ll almost never see an Instagram Photo Map with images posted directly from Pyongyang.

David Guttenfelder (@dguttenfelder), the Associated Press Chief Photographer for Asia, is doing just that: sharing photos on Instagram while on assignment in North Korea. “I feel I can help open a window into a place that would otherwise rarely be seen by outsiders,” he says. “As one of the few international photographers who has ever had regular access to the country, I feel a huge responsibility to share what I see and to show it as accurately as I can.”

David is one of the first people to ever post real-time Instagram pictures from within North Korea. Most visitors to the DPRK don’t have access to internet and—until just a few weeks ago—foreigners were not allowed to bring mobile phones into the country. Now David can share personal iPhone and iPod Touch photos to Instagram as he captures them. “There are so many curious, strangely beautiful, or melancholy details around us here…These might not be typical of the news photos I usually transmit, but they offer fleeting glimpses of this country, and how it feels to be here.”

2,136 notes | Posted Feb 28, 13