The book that influenced my life the most is "In Patagonia" by Bruce Chatwin.

It's the story of Bruce having "treasures" from the tip of South America from an ancestor that went there long ago. So he, as a young boy in England, made the plan to go there too. It caught his sense of curiosity and he could not let it go.

After many other travels, he finally got there and this book is the story of that trip. He basically wanders his way down there without any plan except to get there, which he eventually does. Of course, nothing is as he thought it would be.

I read this book the first time (of many) when I was about 17 and never had stayed anywhere long. You can see in my profile on steem or anywhere that I consider myself a nomad, and now at 60, I do not think that will change.

But when I first read this book, I thought I would need to find "a place" and settle down - to be normal. The book was the first to let me believe I could have a home on planet earth, without having to have a home on one small spot of it.