Backpackers' Handbook 2

Both excuses are flimsy. If someone truly wants something, they’ll find the time. They’ll work hard to finish exams in the spring semester or take a gap year—what student hasn’t taken a break? Those with jobs will save up their vacation days and, if needed, tack on a month of unpaid leave. 

Yet most console themselves: "I’ll go someday, you’ll see! If not sooner, then when I retire!"

— and never budge.

Janin Klemenčič (to be continued)