Archives for January 2015

Traveling Down South Looking For Good Times

“In a Ramada Inn near the grapevine, they stop to rest for the night. Traveling down south, looking for good times. Visiting old friends feels right” – Neil Young (Ramada Inn) | Travel Quote of the Day

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A Smell Remembered

“I heard word of bellied sailcloth, creak of oars, and gold in Eastland. Then I smelled, a smell remembered: Salt of spray and black-pitched boat’s keel” – Frans G. Bengtsson | Travel Quote of the Day

To At Last Contact The Core

“To know a person in his home is not to know him at all: to meet him on a country road with only his baggage is to at last contact the core, the inner cell of his personality” – John Tibbetts | Travel Quote of the Day

Nomadic Families Trying To Find Their Cars

“Just get on any major highway, and eventually it will dead-end in a Disney parking area large enough to have its own climate, populated by large nomadic families who have been trying to find their cars since the Carter administration” – Dave Barry | Travel Quote of the Day

Getting Out Of Bed To Become A Tourist

“But nothing will persuade me that the mere fact of being in a place is enough in itself to justify the effort of getting out of bed to become a tourist, or even a traveller. I don’t have the slightest wish to be intrepid. I don’t want to prove myself to myself or anyone else. […]

As Many Worlds As Kinds Of Days

“There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I” – John Steinbeck | Travel Quote of the Day

Wherever I Go

“Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love” – Clive Barker | Travel Quote of the Day

Streets Of London

“So how can you tell me you’re lonely, and say for you that the sun don’t shine? Let me take you by the hand, and lead you through the streets of London. I’ll show you something to make you change your mind” – Ralph McTell | Travel Quote of the Day

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I Can Go Anywhere On The Planet

“My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with mishaps, discomforts, and minor disasters. So I can go anywhere on the planet—that’s not a problem. The problem is that I just can’t live anywhere on the planet” – Elizabeth Gilbert | […]

I’ve Always Preferred The City At Night

“I’ve always preferred the city at night. I believe that San Judas, or any city, belongs to the people who sleep there. Or maybe they don’t sleep – some don’t – but they live there. Everybody else is just a tourist. Venice, Italy, for instance, pulls in a millions tourists for their own Carnival season but the actual […]