I've written something on my introduction post that I think you'd like. It says.

"A man must travel. By his own means, not by stories, images, books or TV. By his own, with his eyes and feet, to understand what he is. To plant his own trees and give them some value. To know the cold to enjoy the heat. To feel the distance and lack of shelter to be well under his own ceiling. A man needs to travel to places he doesn't know to break this arrogance that makes us see the world as we imagine it, and not simply as it is or may be. That makes us teachers and doctors of what we have never seen, when we should just be learners, and simply go see it. - Amyr Klink"

But in the end he always comes back to his mother land. This was written by Amyr Klink, a brazilian sailor. If you like travel stories you shoul'd check it out, his first book is "100 days between sea and sky" (Cem dias entre ceu e mar).

Have a good sunday from the other side of the Atlantic xD