BOOKS: The Slow Traveller by Jo Tinsley

The Slow Traveller: An intentional path to mindful adventuresThe Slow Traveller: An intentional path to mindful adventures by Jo Tinsley
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

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Out: June 13, 2023

This book, gorgeously illustrated with photographs, consists of a series of essays on a different approach to travel, an approach familiar to travelers but not so much to tourists, an approach that is the antithesis of leaping from one postcard panorama to the next, packing a couple weeks’ vacation with maximum sights seen.

Most of the chapters / essays look at a specific mode of travel – i.e. the road trip, hiking / pilgrimage, train travel, and water travel. However, a few of the chapters tack from different angles to look at local food-centric travel, sheltering with permanent structures like bothies and teahouses, and urban slow travel.

There are some interesting insights in this book, it has stunning photography, and I even picked up some book recommendations. If you’re interested in changing your approach to travel to go deeper / less broad, this book is worth reading.

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DAILY PHOTO: Fire Clouds at Sundown

DAILY PHOTO: Mount Agung from Amed

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DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Annapurna Base Camp

DAILY PHOTO: Boats & Ghats, Varanasi

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DAILY PHOTO: Baby Sculptures

Taken at the 2023 Republic Day Flower Show in Lalbagh Botanical Gardens, Bangalore.

DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Udvar-Hazy Center, National Air & Space Museum

DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Atlanta

Duty-Free Limerick

There once was a lazy sales clerk 
 who didn’t want clients to think her a jerk.
  The solution, you see, 
  was the airport duty-free,
 where there’d be no obligation to work.
 [And the salary would be a nice perq.]

DAILY PHOTO: Animals on the Chobe Banks

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