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.


Eva Holland is co-editor of World Hum. She is a former associate editor at Up Here and Up Here Business magazines, and a contributor to Vela. 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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