3/20/09
I asked this question a few months ago and now I have my answer. I am the kind of traveller that is tired of travelling alone. I am the kind of traveller that likes to really dig into a place and experience life there. I am the kind of traveller that wants to understand the people, customs, and religion of a place first hand. I am the kind of traveller that is bored with monuments, wonders, and toursist attractions but still wants to see them. I am the kind of traveller who has very little desire to sit in a hostel lounge and get drunk with strangers in a new place. I am the kind of traveller that wants to be invisible while he observes and yet active in participation.
I am not the kind of guy who rides his bike through Africa or takes a unicycle to Namibia. I don’t float across oceans on rafts of junk or row across seas. I walk, I watch, I talk, I buy things once in a while, and I try to participate and understand.
I still want to go to India, Turkey, Japan, France, Holland, Australia, Senegal, Mali, Australia, and Nepal. It just might take me a while to get there. I am not a spectacle by intent, but an active participant who is also a spectator.
Vago Damitio is the Vagabond in Chief. He is also a writer, blogger, traveler, adventurer and teacher. He has spent his life mastering how to have incredible adventures on minuscule budgets. Someday he hopes to have the option of using gigantic budgets for miniscule adventures.
