I’ve spent the last two weeks offline a lot. On one hand, feverishly writing articles and trying to meet a few back-to-back deadlines before year’s end, but on the more important hand, hanging out with friends, trying different restaurants and cafes and fulfilling what I’d set out to do a lot more of this year – spend more quality time offline.

I recently dug up a piece on traveling with an open mind I’d written in 2008 and one of the statements I quoted that really resonated with me is this…