“Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? Is it right to be watching strangers in a play in this strangest of theatres? What childishness is it that while there’s a breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way […]
Archives for October 2014
A Cost-Effective Way To Travel
October 30, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Amtrak offers riders a cost-effective way to travel throughout the country” – Tim Bishop | Travel Quote of the Day
Riding On A Chicken Bus
October 29, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Somewhere along the dust-choked Guatemalan road between Santa Elena and Bethel was where I confirmed that I preferred traveling around the slow, bone-rattling way: by bus, with ordinary people. The bus we were riding in had been repainted in bright reds and blues. The inside was colorful too; the seats had springs popping out of […]
The Pleasure In Being Alone
October 28, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude. She had never landed at Cork, so this hill and that hill beyond were as unexpected as pictures at which you say “Oh look!” Nobody was beside her to share […]
Landscape Of Human Emotion
October 27, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“If the landscape of human emotion were to exist in country, it would be in Italy” – Lisa Fantino | Travel Quote of the Day
When Life Flowed At Full Tide
October 26, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“It is not because I do not love my adopted land – it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance” – Erich von Stroheim | […]
Playin’ In A Travelin’ Band
October 25, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“737 comin’ out of the sky, won’t you take me down to Memphis on a midnight ride? I want to move. Playin’ in a travelin’ band. Well I’m flyin’ ‘cross the land, tryin’ to get a hand, playin’ in a travelin’ band” – Creedence Clearwater Revival (Travelin’ Band) | Travel Quote of the Day
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Almost Instant Contact
October 24, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts” – David Bohm | Travel Quote of the Day
No Land In The World Can Inspire Such Love
October 23, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“When I come out on the road of a morning, when I have had a night’s sleep and perhaps a breakfast, and the sun lights a hill on the distance, a hill I know I shall walk across an hour or two thence, and it is green and silken to my eye, and the clouds […]
Humility Is A Virtue
October 22, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“In Chinese business culture, humility is a virtue” – Stefan H. Verstappen | Travel Quote of the Day
