Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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25 published records
01 / recommendation
“I like Transnistria. I wouldn’t put it in a rank — the better, the best, one of the best countries in terms of hospitality — but as a traveler who is obviously trying to also collect the difficult stamps in his collection, then of course breakaway republics, they are a very precious place.”
02 / recommendation
“I like Cortázar because he mixes the intellectual game of writing with the very bohemian sense of his lifestyle when he was in Paris.”
03 / observation
“The problem is that traveling, and even our role as bloggers, has fallen for some people only into promoting these nations, and you fall into the touristic aspect of it, while I try to enhance and stress the way travel can change the way you relate to the whole planet.”
04 / belief
“If we think about the New World, it seems to me that, systematically, a lot of countries in the New World are much more dangerous than countries in the other hemisphere.”
05 / commitment
“People sometimes tend to think that I will just land there and start hitchhiking randomly in any direction, which is not the case.”
06 / belief
“I think that definitely makes you stronger. Stronger in the sense that it helps you to be happier with less, I think.”
07 / belief
“I think that we are losing…probably something happening here that some people — just some people — don’t have the chance to demonstrate their value to the community.”
08 / belief
“I think I’m optimistic, yeah. In the long run, but not in the present government we have now.”
09 / belief
“I have actually designed trips in order to fit with territories that I have learned about from stamps.”
10 / belief
“You definitely have to know your limitations, and you know your own template, and it must not be your first trip, for sure. But I think that the general difficulties of traveling as a woman are not really different from the general difficulties of living as a woman in our society.”
11 / belief
“I think there was a turn in our history, somewhere in the late ’60s, where the military government had an economic agenda which was not set by our own people but by international entities such as IMF and the World Bank.”
12 / commitment
“I won’t measure it how many months a year, but what happens is we — Laura and I — we always do long trips.”
13 / belief
“I think everyone should pursue his or her own dreams, but I don’t think it’s like a universal formula that should be exported in a massive way and everyone should do this.”
14 / belief
“We have survived so many crises that I think we still have the will to stand anew.”
15 / belief
“I think that actually more and more people should choose their own place in society on the road.”
16 / preference
“I like the Balkans because it’s Europe, but it has a lot of Ottoman influence, which means they are — having fresh ingredients in their food is a priority for them.”
17 / evaluation
“” in each car you board. But it pays off because people then have such amazing stories to share.”
18 / prediction
“I can also understand how terrorists come to be because those being in these countries where they’re absolutely open to foreigners, but at the same time, it’s an easy ground in which to recruit people because of their overpopulation.”
19 / preference
“I like that because it breaks the stereotype, and it’s a good starting point of the biography of this trip, which is trying to dismantle stereotypes.”
20 / evaluation
“I think Oscar Wilde said that the only way not to get old was to continue repeating the same mistakes.”
21 / evaluation
“The reason why I travel is because I want, in a way, to dismantle these stereotypes that there are about certain nations like Colombia or Muslim countries.”
22 / evaluation
“I think that the problem is that we perceive countries just because of what we heard on the news.”
23 / evaluation
“” What I think happens is that somehow our society has driven us into the idea that you have your own house, and when you get out of the house, you just move into your little bit of moving private space, into your car.”
24 / prediction
“I think the next move is trying to make the books available in the US or in the UK because I feel that’s a place where the books are necessary — even more than my home country — because that’s where decisions are being made.”
25 / evaluation
“In general, countries which are used to sharing resources for whatever reason, whether religious or because they were part of the communist bloc, which also developed some social structures in which sharing resources was very common, then it’s easy today to hitchhike in Romania or Poland.”