Archives for November 2014

Patriarchy Is Prevalent

“I wish she’d said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and xenophobia are. We can’t hide from it, not even here” – Raquel Cepeda | Travel Quote of the Day

Call Me The Breeze

“Now they call me the breeze, I keep blowin’ down the road. I ain’t got me nobody, I don’t carry me no load.
There ain’t no change in the weather, ain’t no changes in me. And I ain’t hidin’ from nobody, nobody’s hidin’ from me – that’s the way it’s supposed to be.
I got that green light baby, I got to keep movin’ on. Well I might go out to California, might go down to Georgia, I don’t know” – Lynyrd Skynyrd (Call Me The Breeze) | Travel Quote of the Day

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What Gives Value To Travel Is Fear

“What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have” – Elizabeth Benedict | Travel Quote of the Day

The Helicopter Is A Fine Way To Travel

“The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis” – Morley Safer | Travel Quote of the Day

Tolerable Examples Of Local Color

“Perhaps, like most of us in a foreign country, he was incapable of placing people, selecting a frame for their picture, as he would at home; therefore all Americans had to be judged in a pretty equal light, and on this basis his companions appeared to be tolerable examples of local color and national character” […]

Beauty Lies In The Simplest Of Things

“Most of the time, beauty lies in the simplest of things” – Winna Efendi | Travel Quote of the Day

Cities Have Revealed Themselves

“How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!” – Walter Benjamin | Travel Quote of the Day

Life Enhancing Thoughts

“Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts” – Alain de Botton | Travel Quote of the Day

They Call Me A Gypsy Man

“They call me a gypsy man, ’cause I don’t stay in one place too long. I’m searchin’ for a brand new world to make and call my home” – War (Gypsy Man) | Travel Quote of the Day

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Bury Oneself in South America

“What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions” – Agatha Christie | Travel Quote of the Day