"As for the practical challenges of 'reentry' into your home life (moving in, finding a job, starting a routine), confront them all as new adventures. Rediscover your work, and do it well. Redeploy your simplicity, and make it pay out in free time. Emulate the best of people who themselves were at home when you met them on your travels. Pinpoint what you learned from them- hospitality, fun, reverence, integrity- and incorporate these things into your own life. Integrate the deliberate pace and fresh perspective that made your travel experience so vivid, and allow for unstructured time in your day-to-day home schedule. Don't let the vices you conquered on the road -fear, selfishness, vanity, prejudice, envy- creep back into your daily life. Explore your hometown as if it were a foreign land, and take an interest in your neighbors as if they were exotic tribesman. Keep things real, and keep on learning. Be creative, and get into adventures. Earn your freedom all over again and don't set limits. Keep things simple, and let your spirit grow.
But most of all, keep living your life in such a way that allows your dreams room to breathe.
Because you never know when you'll feel the urge to hit the road again."
-Potts, Rolf
Vagabonding: An Uncommon
Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
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