(via 25 Of The Most Dangerous And Unusual Journeys To School In The World | Bored Panda)
Fucking tourists! Fingers from the people who live there. A photography project. (via FUCKING TOURIST_ - jolipunk)
Plane Finder – Live Flight Status Tracker
Planes in the sky right now… Looks like a swarm of ants!
The craziest OkCupid date ever
Never one to waste time, Jeff set an experimental trap weeks before he knew my real last name or whether I actually looked like the pictures in my OkCupid account. His third email was coy: “Do you have any ideas for travel experiments? I have a few things I dabble in, and I’m going to push one of these experiments to the nth limit in June.” “Dabbling” referred to his traditional method of travel, which involved booking an outbound flight to one international airport and an inbound flight out of some other port-of-calling a few countries away. Beyond visas and flight details his trips were completely unstructured. No hotels and no itineraries.
Oh yeah, and the newest nth limit twist: no stuff.
If yes, great!
If no, that’s what you need to escape from.
Build your own reality. Decide for yourself what this reality looks like. No one is stopping you, and the next step is yours to take."
— The Art of Non-Conformity » Escape to Reality
(Source: chrisguillebeau.com)
(via Pico Iyer: Where is home? | Video on TED.com)
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Only one in 1.2 million flights ends up in an accident, according to NTSB statistics. Vast improvements in safety training, in nonflammable aircraft materials and in firefighting equipment have made flying much safer than driving.
The odds of dying in a plane crash are about one in 11 million, according to Discovery, while the odds of dying in an auto accident are about one in 5,000.
“Riding on a commercial airplane has got about the same amount of risk as riding on an escalator,” Hansman told ABC News."
— How to Survive a Plane Crash: Scientific American
(Source: scientificamerican.com)
The affected person often finds this more surprising and difficult to deal with than the original culture shock."
— Culture shock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Source: Wikipedia)
c’est le droit à l’errance, au vagabondage.
Et pourtant, le vagabondage, c’est l’affranchissement,
et la vie le long des routes, c’est la liberté.
Rompre un jour bravement toutes les entraves dont
la vie moderne et la faiblesse de notre cœur,
sous prétexte de liberté, ont chargé notre geste,
s’armer du bâton et de la besace symboliques, et s’en aller !
Pour qui connaît la valeur et aussi la délectable saveur
de la solitaire liberté (car on n’est libre que tant qu’on est seul),
l’acte de s’en aller est le plus courageux et le plus beau.
Egoïste bonheur, peut-être. Mais c’est le bonheur,
pour qui sait le goûter.
Etre seul, être pauvre de besoins, être ignoré,
étranger et chez soi partout, et marcher, solitaire et grand
à la conquête du monde."
— Isabelle EberhardtVoyager seul, se sentir libre et heureux
(Source: voyagesetc.fr)