What about pay

Sometimes you need pay.

All the time. You always need money.

But, money isn’t hard to come by. It’s just a function of what you’re willing to do. Can you clean toilets for $8 an hour? Absolutely! Will you…?

I have this heavily highlighted, dog-eared copy of Rolf Potts’s Vagabonding. Picked up in 2003, I recall thinking at that time that I was looking forward to traveling around the world. It took me years to first make it past the Americas, but I’ve seen larger swaths of the globe at this point.

But this passage is one that always sticks in my memory: “Of all the outrageous throwaway lines one hears in movies, there is one that stands out for me… It comes from Oliver Stone’s Wall Street, when the Charlie Sheen character – a promising big shot in the stock market – is telling his girlfriend about his dreams.

‘I think if I can make a bundle of cash before I’m thirty and get out of this racket…I’ll be able to ride my motorcycle across China.’

… Charlie Sheen or anyone else could work for eight months as a toilet cleaner and have enough money to ride a motorcycle across China.”