Wired’s Kevin Kelly: Travel as ‘Higher Education’

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  02.23.11 | 11:41 AM ET

Chris Mitchell interviewed Kelly, who’s taken a break from writing bestsellers about technology to release a travel photography book. The book, Asia Grace, compiles photos from Kelly’s travels through Asia as a young backpacker in the 1970s. Here’s the Wired co-founder on those early travels:

I had hoped to work for National Geographic. I even called up one photo editor there and told him where I was going, looking for an assignment, but of course, they did not work that way… My travels never “paid” for themselves in any economic way, but I never really tried very hard to do so. I think of them more like my higher education. And for the amount of time I spent there, and what I learned, it was the cheapest education ever.

Tags: Travel Books, Travel Philosophy, Travel Photography, Asia, News and Briefs

Eva Holland is the senior editor of World Hum. She is an associate editor at Up Here and Up Here Business magazines, and her writing has also appeared in Reader's Digest Canada, NationalGeographic.com, the National Post, the Montreal Gazette, the Ottawa Citizen and WestJet's Up! Magazine, among other publications. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.


1 Comment for Wired’s Kevin Kelly: Travel as ‘Higher Education’

Colleen Friesen 02.24.11 | 1:46 AM ET

“I think of them more like my higher education.”
I so agree. I’ve been freelance travel writing for a while now, and it’s certainly not because it’s a get rich quick scheme :)
But I feel like I’ve been so fortunate to glimpse into other lives and other ways of viewing the world. Travel has, and continues to be, the best education I could hope for.
I’ve just compiled a little e-book with some of my favourite stories that I hope reflect some of the realizations I’ve had on these trips. It can be downloaded from Smashwords at this link:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/43664

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