A Traveler Returns Home

Daniel Wallace has recently returned to London after 14 months on the road. He’s leaving again shortly to live and work in Australia, but his latest posts on his travelblog have been looking at life in London with a foreigner’s eyes:

I feel much freer of needs to consume things, much more distant from advertising, and I would hate to lose that empowerment. I still feel strongly that taking time for one’s life is a better route to happiness than spending money on possessions. My own experience and impression from listening to others is that, despite what magazines and television tell you, one ends up with only cracks of life to slip inbetween the debts of time and money to pay for all those things alleged to bring happiness.

from Not very heroic