“I knew I seemed a fairly unlikely candidate for an adventure into the unknown. And secretly I doubted that I had what it took, whatever it took, to head off alone to a country most people had never heard of. In light of this, my determination to go puzzled me.”
“Anyone can live anywhere. You think you can't in the beginning, but then you do.”
“I wanted to throw myself into an experience that was too big for me and learn in a way that cost me something”