J. Maarten Troost
J. Maarten Troost
Jan Maarten Troostis a Dutch-American travel writer and essayist...
NationalityDutch
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connection enhances sobriety travel
The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
apparently arrow life possibly time
I have been called many things in my life, but if there has been but one constant, one barb, one arrow flung my way time after time, it is the accusation that I am, in essence, nothing more than an escapist. Apparently this is bad, suspect, possibly even un-American.
fun believe adventure
I had grown accustomed to life being interesting and adventure ridden and, rather childishly, I refused to believe that this must necessarily come to an end and that the rest of my life should be a sort of penance for all the reckless, irresponsible, and immensely fun things I’d done before.
world claims small-world
No one who claims this to be a small world has ever flown across the Pacific.
appreciated deprivation overload
It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated.