Kevin Kelly's 50 years of travel trips is excellent.

"The most significant criteria to use when selecting travel companions is: do they complain or not, even when complaints are justified? No complaining! Complaints are for the debriefing afterwards when travel is over."

"Perfection is for watches. Trips should be imperfect. There are no stories if nothing goes amiss."

"If you detect slightly more people moving in one direction over another, follow them. If you keep following this "gradient" of human movement, you will eventually land on something interesting—a market, a parade, a birthday party, an outdoor dance, a festival."