Into the midst - Galapagos // by @newman_ "Now I'd like to take a moment here to discuss the difference, in my mind at least, between travelling and holidays. To the untrained eye they may look the same. Both modes involve being away from home. Both will take you to the places of your dreams. But what is the difference? The “holidayer” (not a word, I know, just roll with it) has a sense of entitlement, they deserve to be here, whereas the traveller feels lucky. The traveller is not going to miss an opportunity, the traveller will get the most out of every day, eating every last scrap of food, taking every one of those 120 minutes of snorkelling in the morning to explore and using every bit of the daylight to their best ability. The “holidayer” in contrast lets moments pass, they sit back, sigh and wonder when lunch will be ready, tans and thinks of things at home. They are here, but not here. They walk a trail and look ahead, even though they know what’s there, because he just looked a second ago. What they are looking for, what they want, is all around them, but they don't want that, because it's all around them. They are still imagining the place they were going to be as external, distant and wonderful as it was when they sat in their cubical at work." @intothemidst #summersitejourneys