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From the book Vagabonding by Rolf Potts:
"Don't set limits on what you can or can't do. Don't set limits on what is or isn't worthy of your time. Dare yourself to "play games" with your day: watch, wait, listen; allow things to happen. Wherever you are, be it the Vatican gift shop, a jungle village in Panama, or downtown Ouagadougou-keep aware of the tiniest tics and details that surround you. As Dean MacCannell pointed out, "Anything that is remarked, even little flowers or leaves picked up off the ground and shown to a child, even a shoeshine or gravel pit, anything is potentially an attraction... Sometimes we have official guides and travelogues to assist us in this point. Usually we are on our own. How else do we know another person except as an ensemble of suggestions hollowed out from the universe of possible suggestions? How else do we begin to know the world?" In this way, vagabonding is like a pilgrimage without a specific destination or goal-not a quest for answers so much as a celebration of the questions, an embrace of the ambiguous, and an openness to anything that comes your way. Indeed, if you set off on down the road with specific agendas and goals, you will at best discover the pleasure of actualizing them. But if you wander with open eyes and simple curiosity, you'll discover a much richer pleasure-the simple feeling of possibility that hums from every direction as you move from place to place."