The best education I have everreceived was through travel.

Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. lt's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observelit in your backyard · or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers.

Riding a bicycle is the summit of human endeavour - an almost neutral environmental effect coupled with the ability to travel substantial distances without disturbing anybody.The bike is the perfect marriage of technology and human energy.

As I get older, the things that I want are starting to make more sense. Being able to travel makes me happy, and I am a person that lives in the moment. I also want to live a good life. Traveling makes everyday issues seem so much smaller and really changes my perspective on things.

Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture.Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead ofracing through a list of tourist traps.