Archives for December 2013

The Dawning of the Rest of Our Lives – On Holiday

“I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies. This is the dawning of the rest of our lives – On holiday” – Green Day (On Holiday)

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I Shouldn’t Haggle with Poverty

“I don’t like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between the feeling that I shouldn’t haggle with poverty and getting ripped off” – Alex Garland

Travel is the Great Leveler

“No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself […]

My Destiny is to Travel

“I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel..” – Ernesto Guevara

Nothing Like Staying at Home

“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort” – Jane Austen

It Is Not The Destination Where You End Up

“It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way!” – Penelope Riley

He Who Travels Much Has This Advantage

“He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they acquire the vague and poetical quality which is only given to other things by time. He who has not traveled at all has this disadvantage – that all his memories […]

Walking in Memphis

“Walking in Memphis, I was walking with my feet ten feet off of Beale. Walking in Memphis, but do I really feel the way I feel?” – Marc Cohn (Walking in Memphis)

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Stuck on a Long Train Ride

“Imagine that you are stuck on a long train ride and must choose one of two books to read in order to pass the time: the first is a novel whose main character is an office worker who is essentially working to pay his monthly cable bill; the second is about someone who decides to […]

Travel Far Enough

“Travel far enough, you meet yourself” – David Mitchell