The Happiness of Pursuit

Behind the book

Announcing The Happiness of Pursuit (and please, join us!)

Perhaps the greatest revelation of the journey was in learning about quests themselves.

I loved the travel, but I also loved building a structure and a clear goal around it. Knowing that I was working toward something made a huge difference. I enjoyed completing different parts of the world and getting closer and closer toward the end—even though I also didn’t want it to end! (It was sometimes a little complicated, which I wrote about in the book.)

Along the way I met a number of people who were also undertaking quests. Interestingly, while some of them were travel quests, many of the other quests were completely different.