It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and whats happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there - with your eyes open - and lived to see it.
- Anthony Bourdain
source: "The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones". Book by Anthony Bourdain, 2006.
topic: Travel, Eye, Reality, Machu Picchu
When I was in my twenties and just so sexually prolific, the first time I went to Machu Picchu, this guy, a spiritual teacher, says to me, "When you make love, you must be making love." I thought that was the greatest advice I had ever heard.
- Woody Harrelson
topic: Relationship, Spiritual, Teacher, Spiritual Teachers, Machu Picchu
So let's not pretend that travel is always fun. We don't spend 10 hours lost in the Louvre because we like it, and the view from the top of Machu Picchu probably doesn't make up for the hassle of lost luggage. (More often than not, I need a holiday after my holiday.) We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.
- Jonah Lehrer
source: "Why we travel" by Jonah Lehrer, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2010. 
topic: Fun, Distance, Home, Hassle, View From The Top
