Calm.com

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu



Moraine Lake, Canada -Bored Panda

I went to www.calm.com today.  I loved it.  My first scene was a sunset over the ocean.  I sat there for two minutes and listened to the waves and played with my imagination.  The motionless seagulls from the image took flight, the waves crashed on my feet.  I wiggled my toes in the sand and formed shapes in the clouds.  My second scene was a green field with waist high grass waving in the wind with a bright blue sky.  I wish I was there to run around, crouch under the plant life pretending to be a predator.  Cartwheels in tall grass are the most simple and precious adventure a person can have as lush greenery brushes your face in a whisp of upsidedown fun. 

I need to get out of here.  I need to get away from technology and cars and glass windows and concrete and fast food and brand names and magazines and cell phones and light bulbs and all that other useless crap.  Its nothing but a filler and it blinds us from this world.  Human's are the only species that pays to live on this planet.  I need to escape.  I know how to do it.  I am completely capable of just getting up and going, seeing oceans and seas and lakes and mountains and rivers and waterfalls.  I can scubadive and skydive and cliff jump.  I can eat dinner off of a campfire and witness wildlife more intimately.  I can do it, I know how! 

I am not brave enough though, I fear failure.  I fear being in my old age and someone having to take care of me.  I fear that if I take the leap and I start to travel and actually LIVE my life, what if something happens?  What if I get sick and I don't have insurance because I am a free agent?  What if I get stuck somewhere dangerous and I don't have a means to get out of there?  What if I fall in love and start a family and have absolutely no means of supporting my children because I traveled instead of studied? 

What if I enjoy every moment of it, fall in love with the lifestyle, and live free?

I want to see these places firsthand.

"The wisdom's in the tree's not the glass windows." -Jack Johnson

I am so immensely torn, being pulled two, even three, completely different directions! It brings tears to my eyes, what the hell do I do!?


Plitvice, Croatia -Bored Panda



Carerra Lake -Bored Panda

 “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson



Phi Phi Islands, Thailand -Bored Panda

“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson

“When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.” – D. H. Lawrence

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark


Iceland -Bored Panda

“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain  (I think I may prefer to travel alone.)



Machu Picchu, Peru -Bored Panda

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quiestest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou

“What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon



Pamukkale, Turkey -Bored Panda

“I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.” – Lillian Smith

“Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” – Mark Jenkins




Santorini, Greece -Bored Panda

How on gods green earth am I supposed to overcome my fears and spread my wings?