Lavinia Spalding
 Home: Flagstaff, Arizona
Age: 32
Job: Teacher and Writer
Quote: "Don't think about it too much. Don't make pro and con lists. Pro and con lists are nothing but trouble. If you think about it too much, you'll just end up staying home… My family and friends often say to me, 'I'm living vicariously through you.' Don't ever live vicariously. This is YOUR life. Live."
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Maurice "Moman" Valentine
 Home: The Bronx, New York
Age: 34
Job: Web Designer
Quote: "This traveling thang has most definitely made me realize how curious humanity is about itself. How being different is a real trait that should be cherished, not ignored, and how we really are all one people, on one planet."
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Paul McNeil
 Home: San Diego, California
Age: 37
Job: City planner
Quote: "As a result of traveling, I have developed a vision problem: I just can't see going back to the office 60 hours a week."
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Sarah O'Brien
 Home: Dillingham, Alaska
Age: 26
Job: Commercial fisherman
Quote: "I know it sounds like some sort of airy-fairy affirmation, but asking a question can be the beginning of learning something new, making friendships, the start of adventures."
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Bill Wolfer
 Home: Cheyenne, Wyoming
Age: 49
Job: Musician
Quote: "'You can read everything there is in the world about a place, but there is no substitute for smelling it!'"
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Linda Rose
 Home: Eugene, Oregon
Age: 59
Job: Retired teacher
Quote: "You can drown in your own bathtub, get hit crossing the street to to get the mail, catch on fire in your kitchen. Do you want to be ruled by your fears or your dreams?"
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Eldon Haines
 Home: Eugene, Oregon
Age: 70
Job: Retired planetary scientist
Longest trip: 6 months
Quote: "The aphorism "The map is not the territory" looms ever larger as I get lost in the intricacies of a culture — giving up any hope of understanding, while love and appreciation between us grows."
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Mary Hill
 Home: Omaha, Nebraska
Age: 27
Job: English teacher
Quote: "Don't get hung up on the traveler/tourist distinction so much that it makes you a snob. We're all tourists, so get over it/yourself and go have a good time!"
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Tom Bourguignon
 Home: New York City
Age: 27
Job: Graphic designer
Quote: "I like Borneo because I punched a monkey there after its friend stole my cookies... I like Laos because a man handed me a pistol once and told me to open fire on a little family of wild hens."
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Kat Villanueva
 Home: Jackson, Michigan
Age: 28
Job: Project manager for Samsung Electronics
Quote: "I was quite the princess before coming to work in Korea and now I am extremely independent. I feel as if I could go anywhere in the world..."
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Adam Lee
 Home: Crystal, Minnesota
Age: 32
Job: Visiting Professor of English
Quote: "Backpacking is the best means of pure education I can find."
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Erin McVey
 Home: Charleston, South Carolina
Age: 29
Job: Divemaster
Quote: "When traveling, chuck out the guidebook as often as possible and just get lost on the backroads of the country you're in."
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