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There is an interesting cultural movement afoot and its called The Slow Movement.
Carl Honore is one of the champions of this new cultural movement through his book In Praise of Slow: How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed.
The video below is a TED Lecture in which Carl Honore discusses the Slow Movement:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/carl_honore_praises_slowness.html
The Slow Movement began in Italy, with the Slow Food Movement — Italy’s revolt against the globalization on North America’s Fast Food Culture. The Slow Food Movement is based on the premise that we gain more pleasure from our meals if we slow down the cultivation, the cooking, and the consumption of the food we eat.
Taken to a broader ideal, the Slow Movement revolves around the premise that we gain more pleasure from life — from our relationships, our work, our environment, our leisure — if we slow down and take the time to really experience our life.
For the traveler, The Slow Movement is about staying in one place long enough to really experience the culture, not through the environments that have been created for Tourists but through the environments that are created by everyday life.
Slow Travelers rent apartments rather than stay in hotels, motels, or hostels. They shop at the local markets and prepare their own meals from local produce, or eat at the neighborhood restaurants and cafes where the locals eat. Slow Travelers immerse themselves in the culture they are visiting and are changed, even just a little bit, by these experiences.
And this is what makes being a traveling Ageless Nomad so wonderful!!
