J. Maarten Troost
J. Maarten Troost
Jan Maarten Troostis a Dutch-American travel writer and essayist...
NationalityDutch
ProfessionWriter
moving home years
Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.
skills people way
Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills.
arts chinese major theater
There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.
experience
You can read and read, but nothing eclipses experience.
connection enhances sobriety travel
The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.