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All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper just running down the edges of different countries and continents, looking for something.

Elizabeth Bishop (via travel-quotes)

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How being a foreigner can feel

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When I find Reese's Peanut Butter Cups in the store

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How I approach new people for hugs when I don't know if it's culturally ok or not...taking cues from Gandalf

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When you don't know the proper greeting in a different country so you try everything...awkwardly and without grace

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Every five minutes at the dinner table I'm like...

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Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who you are, or cares, and so you shed your checkered past and your motley credentials and you face the day unarmed … And onward we go and some day in the distant future, we will stop and turn around in astonishment to see all the places we’ve been and the heroes we were.

Garrison Keillor (via travel-quotes)

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This map shows the percent of residents of each state who own passports.

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When you don't know the language well enough to sound poetic, so you end up sounding stupid.

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When you aren't sure how the appliances work in your new country...so you just yolo it.

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Being easily spooked in a city abroad

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Like how in the UK pants means underwear, putting two fingers up means fuck you, and fanny means vayjayjay...yeah...that isn't in the guidebook

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Trying to not look like a foreigner...

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When you don't understand what anyone is saying...

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Living abroad gives you this realization