Archives for November 2013

I Got Ramblin’ on my Mind

“I got ramblin’, I got ramblin’ on my mind. I got ramblin’, I got ramblin’ all on my mind. Hate to leave my baby, but you treats me so unkind” – Robert Johnson (Rambling On My Mind)

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Drive from New York to California Without Seeing a Single Thing

“When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing” – John Steinbeck

In Proportion to Their Lack of Travel

“All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport — in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.”” – George Bernard Shaw

Mind-Travel to the Future

“Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could travel into the future, see where you messed up, and then go back in time to rearrange things in order to make your future better? You can. If you can foresee regret, you can mind-travel to the future. If you can train yourself to mind-travel effectively, you can […]

Walk Around the World

“My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance” – Maira Kalman

Ideas More Flexible

“Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who’d stayed at home” – Hilary Mantel

The Problem with Driving Around Iceland

“The problem with driving around Iceland is that you’re basically confronted by a new soul-enriching, breath-taking, life-affirming natural sight every five goddamn minutes. It’s totally exhausting” – Stephen Markley

So Far Away

“Traveling around sure gets me down and lonely, nothing else to do but close my mind. I sure hope the road don’t come to own me, there’s so many dreams I’ve yet to find. But you’re so far away” – Carole King

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Travel and Adventure Change and Elongate Time

“Travellers understand, instinctively and by experience, that travel and adventure change and elongate time, even while navigating the deadlines of airline and train departures” – Paul Sheehan

It is the Journey that Matters

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end” – Ernest Hemingway