http://www.vagabondish.com/easier-to-be-fat-stupid-untraveled/
"There’s one of the seven deadly sins that I find fits the modern age perfectly. Lust? Hardly – even with a plethora of nightclubs and Craigslist personals, this sin has remained more or less stagnant.
I refer of course to sloth – the desire not to desire; inability; laziness; not reaching with the mind or the body.
Travel is all about extending yourself. Moving beyond perceptions of closed societies by finding a foothold and learning how people in other cultures live their lives similarly. Pushing your strength to the limit with adventures to the tallest mountaintops. Getting away from comfort and into the unknown."