“Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone’s home and backyard” – Vera Nazarian
Archives for January 2014
Three Trips You Take To India
January 20, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“There are three trips you take to India: the one you think you’re going to have – that you plan for; the one you actually have; and the one you live through once you go back home” – Erin Reese
Travelling Just To See Your Face
January 19, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Across galaxies of time and space, travelling just to see your face. Lost amidst the countless stars, to bring me back to where you are” – Bryce Anderson
I Wanna Be Sedated
January 18, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated. Nothin’ to do and no where to go-o-oh I wanna be sedated. Just get me to the airport put me on a plane, hurry hurry hurry before I go insane. I can’t control my fingers I can’t control my brain, Oh no no no oh no…” – The Ramones (I Wanna Be Sedated)
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Only The Little, Narrow People Who Do Not Travel
January 17, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside […]
The Journey Is Part Of The Experience
January 16, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“The journey is part of the experience – an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca” – Anthony Bourdain
To Shut Your Eyes
January 15, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“To shut your eyes is to travel” – Emily Dickinson
What One Knows Of Alternative Realities
January 14, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“One wants never to give up this crystalline perspective. One wants to keep counterpositioning home with what one knows of alternative realities, as they exist in Tunis or Hyderabad. One wants never to forget that nothing here is normal, that the streets are different in Wisebaden, and Louyang, that this is just one of many […]
If The Mattress Stains Were Anything To Go By
January 13, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations” – Bill Bryson
Never Seen Anything As Green As These Rice Paddies
January 12, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“We’d never seen anything as green as these rice paddies. It was not just the paddies themselves: the surrounding vegetation – foliage so dense the trees lost track of whose leaves were whose – was a rainbow coalition of one colour: green. There was an infinity of greens, rendered all the greener by splashes of […]
