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Don't listen to guidebook advice: Why travellers shouldn't visit museums and galleries   Ben Groundwater How often do you visit a new country and then go home and look back on the highlights and decide that the best bit of your trip wasn't the food, it wasn't the people, it wasn't the scenery – it was the museums? For that matter, how often do you come home raving about the art galleries, or the churches, or even the monuments? Does that ever actually happen? I'm not convinced it does. I'm not convinced there are that many people who even enjoy going to these sorts of places. And yet, we do. All of us. We go to them. And we go to them because we believe we're supposed to. We go to museums because that is officially how you learn about history and culture in a foreign place. That's the done thing. We visit art galleries because that's what the guidebook says to do. We go through church after church, past monument after monument, to official sight ...

REINVENT YOUR LIFE – CHARLES BUKOWSKI “Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself, don’t swim in the same slough. invent yourself and then reinvent yourself and stay out of the clutches of mediocrity. invent yourself and then reinvent yourself, change your tone and shape so often that they can never categorize you. reinvigorate yourself and accept what is but only on the terms that you have invented and reinvented. be self-taught. and reinvent your life because you must; it is your life and its history and the present belong only to you.” REINVENT YOUR LIFE In the results oriented, type A-dominated world that the vast majority of us inhabit, it’s easy to feel that we’re under a considerable amount of pressure to “stay on track.” People all around you are successful. They knew what they wanted to do, they went to school, and they finished a series of degrees. Afterwards, they got a ...

so you want to be a writer? Charles Bukowski ,  1920  -  1994 if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it. if you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screen or hunched over your typewriter searching for words, don't do it. if you're doing it for money or fame, don't do it. if you're doing it because you want women in your bed, don't do it. if you have to sit there and rewrite it again and again, don't do it. if it's hard work just thinking about doing it, don't do it. if you're trying to write like somebody else, forget about it. if you have to wait for it to roar out of you, then wait patiently. if it never does roar out of you, do something else. if you first have to read it to your wife or your girlfriend or your boyfriend or your parents or to anybody at all, you're not ready...

Go Play: A Travel Writer's Last Request Edward Readicker-Henderson (1963–2016) wants you to get off your lawn Friday, August 12, 2016 - 00:00 Amanda Castleman is a contributor to SIERRA. See more stories by this author Edward Readicker-Henderson on the Stikine River, where his ashes will be scattered | Photograph by Amanda Castleman "Whoever created the world went to a lot of trouble,”  Edward Readicker-Henderson , a longtime contributor to  Sierra , once wrote. “It would be downright rude not to go out and see as much of it as possible.” The iconic travel writer lived those words as well, even when doctors said he had only a year left on the clock. Perhaps he'd just gotten jaded about that prognosis—after all, he'd heard it six times over 17 years. "I have been to more than 50 countries since I was told to stop traveling," he confessed during his 2014 TEDxMaui talk,  Kill Your Bucket List . "I've met ...

E-CARDS Thank you, Satyam Vaidya July 2, 2018  by  Paulo Coelho Satyam_Vaidya “When you want something from all your heart, all the universe will conspire in helping you to achieve it.” — The Alchemist We all have heard this quote in different ways, and got motivation by these golden words. Today I’m going to talk about the man who inspired billions of people and made them believe that everyone must have a dream and courage of taking steps to make them real. Paulo Coelho is the Guinness world record for most translated book by a living author. His masterpiece ‘The Alchemist’ has been translated in 81 languages. Born in Brazil as a teenager Coelho wanted to become a writer. His father was an engineer and very practical toward life, so he didn’t understood Coelho’s passion. When his father realized that he can’t manipulate Paulo, he sent him to mental institution at the age of 17. There he tried his escape for three times but couldn’t made it. At the a...

The Theory of Tibetan Medicine Volume One of a Six Volume Commentary on the Four Medical Tantras The Theory of Tibetan medicine is to keep in balance the three principal energies or  Nyipa – Sum . In the  Gyu-Shi  (the four medical tantras) it says that the three principal energies are like three brothers. If one brother has a problem it is impossible for the other brothers to relax or feel comfortable, therefore it is very important for the three principal energies to be in a state of equilibrium in order for our mind and body to function properly. Let us first look in more detail at the three principal energies. They are  Loong ,  mKhris-pa  &  Bad-Kan . Loong What is  Loong ? In Tibetan  Loong  means mobility. This subtle flow of energy circulates throughout our body carrying blood and nutrients. It also helps the respiratory system, sensory organs and bodily growth. It separates nutrients and waste products in our...

#VanLife Meet the Couple Who Live, Work and Travel in This Tricked-Out Van Lindsay VanSomeren Share 96 SHARES Stephanie and Nate Yarbrough, both 29, may live in a van, but it’s not what you think. Theirs is a  tricked-out 2007 Dodge Sprinter , complete with custom cabinets, a full-size bed and 825 watts of solar panels on the roof. Ever wondered  what life on the road is really like ? We caught up with Stephanie to talk about the highs, lows and financial realities of #vanlife. What inspired you to pack up your life in Denver and travel full time? Nate and I always wanted to travel. We'd thought we’d do that in retirement, but about two and a half years ago, my father-in-law passed away at 53. It hit us hard. He had been retired for about three years, and spent the whole time fighting cancer. We thought, ‘Wow, you're not guaranteed even tomorrow.’ We decided to go ahead and start enjoying our lives now, rather than working so hard f...