Jet Lag Junkie Quotes

“The fantasy of living these experiences was one thing, but having the self-confidence to head out into the world and chase them, to take a great leap into the unknown and trust that the world would catch me, was another thing altogether.”
― Jeff Johns, Jet Lag Junkie: Unfiltered Tales of a Compulsive Wanderer

“The words on that hazy, pixelated monitor were burned into my brain. Obviously not exactly what he'd intended to say, but I understood well enough what he was suggesting. I’d just attempted the weakest bribe of all time to a post-Soviet officer.”
― Jeff Johns, Jet Lag Junkie: Unfiltered Tales of a Compulsive Wanderer

“So I decided I would do everything my Dad had not, everything I would need to have the perspective and point of view I felt he lacked, even if it meant getting lost, hurt, in trouble, or ending up somewhere I could never have dreamed of.”
― Jeff Johns, Jet Lag Junkie: Unfiltered Tales of a Compulsive Wanderer

“A lot of what travel teaches us is about letting go, taking the leap, jumping into the unknown, replacing your environment and all its parts for a chance at what happens next.”
― Jeff Johns, Jet Lag Junkie: Unfiltered Tales of a Compulsive Wanderer

“Quickly opening and closing a second drawer he exposed a small black handgun, snatched it quickly and placed it on his lap. I didn't need to look to confirm it was pointing directly at my groin under the table.”
― Jeff Johns, Jet Lag Junkie: Unfiltered Tales of a Compulsive Wanderer

“A picture is truly worth a thousand words and in that single frame, I realized the power that images have, not only catching a fraction of a second, but truly pausing time, pausing my thoughts, and the swirling chaos in my brain.”
― Jeff Johns, Jet Lag Junkie: Unfiltered Tales of a Compulsive Wanderer

“The Nepali drivers can’t be allowed to fall asleep, I get how important that is, but there has got to be a better way to stay awake than blasting every single R. Kelly and Justin Bieber music video in existence overnight for 12 hours, I shit you not. It was absolute torture.”
― Jeff Johns, Jet Lag Junkie: Unfiltered Tales of a Compulsive Wanderer

“Thousands of miles from all the people closest to me, this stranger became my mother, my father, and my family attending to me like a lost child in her village, with the ease and comfort a grandmother would show to her loved ones. All without us exchanging a single word.”
― Jeff Johns, Jet Lag Junkie: Unfiltered Tales of a Compulsive Wanderer

“This is what I traveled for. The totally inexplicable ecstasy of being on a true adventure. The realization that I could disappear, be held hostage, or drown, and not a single person I knew would be within thousands of miles was utterly liberating.”
― Jeff Johns, Jet Lag Junkie: Unfiltered Tales of a Compulsive Wanderer

“What you are to be, you now become. I won’t fear what I don’t understand.' Those 15 words became a mantra of sorts to me, a guiding light that started to direct a little bit of my hopeless wandering for the first time.”
― Jeff Johns, Jet Lag Junkie: Unfiltered Tales of a Compulsive Wanderer

“Life has no obligation to make sense, and the beauty of it is that it rarely does, but if you can get lost in the sweet spot in between, you may find some answers, too - or at least create some good stories.”
― Jeff Johns, Jet Lag Junkie: Unfiltered Tales of a Compulsive Wanderer

“Anne had become my center, the one person who could ground me, a rock holding me in place so I didn’t blow away into the breeze or too far into my own mind.”
― Jeff Johns, Jet Lag Junkie: Unfiltered Tales of a Compulsive Wanderer

“And on that day I turned thirty and I started to cry. I cried because all I was eating was a bowl of chicken and mustard on my birthday... 'Aren’t I supposed to have it all figured out by now!?”
― Jeff Johns, Jet Lag Junkie: Unfiltered Tales of a Compulsive Wanderer

“When I am faced with the chance to swim, even if I’m not convinced or it’s not convenient, more times than not, I will strip down and take the plunge and remember the credo, 'You never regret a swim!”
― Jeff Johns, Jet Lag Junkie: Unfiltered Tales of a Compulsive Wanderer