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5717552 No.5717552 [Reply] [Original]

>mfw I will never be as well traveled as Marco Polo was

>> No.5717569

Marco

>> No.5717574

>>5717552
why not? sure there's not much left to actually discover but travel is easier now than ever. just get on the plane

>> No.5717586

>>5717569
polo

>> No.5717611

>>5717574

two things: money and time, and I have neither

>> No.5717626
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5717626

You might never be as much of a lying fantasist as Marco Polo was. Read Ibn Battuta too.

>> No.5717638
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5717638

Is it better to be well traveled or well read?

>> No.5717651

>>>/out/
>>>/trv/

>> No.5717652

>>5717638

why not both? travel, read and be the ultimate patrician

>> No.5717657

>>5717611
How do you not have time, and not have money?

You should have at least one or the other...

>> No.5717658

>>5717638
It is better to be well.

>> No.5717661
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5717661

post god-tier travel memoirs

>> No.5717684
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5717684

Patrick Leigh Fermor all the way.

>> No.5717693

>>5717657

well, i have a very small capital base and basically live paycheck to paycheck. I can't quite and go travel because I would run out of my money very quickly, even if I went to a country with a good exchange rate. besides, once i got back i would have to find another job and probably be in debt.

>> No.5717699

The travels of sir john mandeville

>> No.5717711

>>5717693
*quit

>> No.5717750

>>5717658
#REKT

>> No.5717881
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5717881

>>5717661
>>5717684
have you guys read pic related, girl friend got it for my birthday. haven't started it yet but its on my read soon list.

>> No.5718235

>>5717881

Peter Mathiessen is god. definitely read next. If you like Mathiessen, check out John McPhee

>> No.5718449

>>5717652
>tfw reading for hours on end sipping a horrible coffee watching a foreign countryside go by
i miss it

>> No.5718513

>>5718449

sounds like a bohemian heaven

>> No.5718547

>>5718513
Sounds like something you do on mommy and daddy's dime.

>> No.5718557

>>5718547

hence why mfw i can't travel because i don't have mommy and daddy's dime

>> No.5718577

>>5718557
You have no face...

>> No.5718580

>>5718577

my sorrow is so deep that i have expression, and so can only represent my face through its own absence

>> No.5718586

>>5718580

*that i have no expression

fuck, ruined the effect

>> No.5718635

>>5717693
Ahh, America, land of the free...

>> No.5718661

>>5717693

Teach english abroad.

>> No.5718666

>>5718661
do you need a degree to do this