.post .storycontent .subtitle { width: 52%; float: left; margin-right: 3%;} Brave New Traveler celebrates its 2nd Birthday with a tribute video from the Matador Team.
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Two years is a long time. That translates into hundreds of hours, blog posts, writers, cups of coffee, and existential angst… but most importantly, it’s a milestone.
When returning home from long trips abroad, I’m always surprised by how much has changed. Somehow, I seem to have a subconscious expectation that life was on pause ?? just waiting for me to come back and pick up where I left off.
Of course, that isn’t how it works.
I come back to find out that my circle of friends isn’t quite the same. Some people aren’t talking to each other anymore. Old couples have broken up, and new ones have formed. Old roommates have finished school and moved away.
Music reminds us of our travels, just as much as it inspires us to travel. It urges us to unfold the maps, pack your backpack and hit the road.
Photo by Cedric Pieterse
Every time I listen to Pink Floyd??s Shine on You Crazy Diamond, I think back to the Makgadi-kgadi Pans in Botswana. These pans cover 6 177.6 square miles, and from the middle, you can see the curvature of the Earth.
???Every joke,??? according to my wife, ???has an element of joke in it.??? The first time I heard it, I figured she??d confused the idea. Her take on English can be quite original sometimes. ???You mean, an element of truth,??? I said, correcting her gently.
???No, an element of joke,??? she replied, enduring me patiently.
I??ve long since come over to her side. At the base of every joke is a spring-loaded truth, a hidden reality that gives them their punch. When a truth suddenly bursts up, we laugh at the unexpected BOING it makes. After the glow of humor fades, the unmasked truth grows familiar, and the joy is now in the telling ?? in offering the surprise to others.