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Gotta Mind To Travel

June 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

“Gotta mind to travel, gotta mind to go back home. Gotta mind to travel, gotta mind to go back home. You see, I ‘ve been so downhearted, I found my little girl had gone.

I threw my breakfast out this morning, poured coffee all in my hair. Threw my breakfast out this morning, poured coffee all in my hair. I’ve been so downhearted, I found my little girl wasn’t there.

I got my suitcase packed, I’m heading down the railroad track. I got my suitcase packed, I’m heading down the railroad track. I’m looking for my baby, gotta try to get my baby back.

Gotta mind to travel, gotta mind to go back home. Gotta mind to travel, gotta mind to go back home. You see, I ‘ve been so downhearted, ever since my girl been gone” – Coco Montoya (Gotta Mind to Travel)

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Happiest Finding My Own Way

June 20, 2014 By Leave a Comment

“I was happiest finding my own way and did not require a liaison man. It had been my intention to stay on the train, without bothering about arriving anywhere. Sight-seeing was a way of passing the time, but, as I had concluded in Istanbul, it was an activity very largely based on imaginative invention, like […]

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Travel is Rebellion In Its Purest Form

June 19, 2014 By Leave a Comment

“Travel is rebellion in its purest form. We follow out heart. We free ourselves of labels. We lose control willingly. We trade a role for reality. We love the unfamiliar. We trust strangers. We own only what we can carry. We search for better questions, not answers. We truly graduate. We, sometimes, choose never to […]

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Writing Allows Me The Time To Travel

June 18, 2014 By Leave a Comment

“Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century” – Alan Dean Foster

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The Tragedy Of Plants – They Have Roots

June 17, 2014 By Leave a Comment

“Quite possibly there’s nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer… That’s when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots” – Mark Helprin

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Yearning For Some Place That Doesn’t Exist

June 16, 2014 By Leave a Comment

“It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and of course it’s not the same. You can’t live with it, you can’t live away from it. And it seems like from then on there’s always this yearning for some […]

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Map Of The World Ceases To Be A Blank

June 15, 2014 By Leave a Comment

“There are several other sources of enjoyment in a long voyage, which are of a more reasonable nature. The map of the world ceases to be a blank; it becomes a picture full of the most varied and animated figures. Each part assumes its proper dimensions: continents are not looked at in the light of […]

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It’s A Long Way Down The Holiday Road

June 14, 2014 By Leave a Comment

“I found out long ago, it’s a long way down the holiday road. Holiday road, holiday road. Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. Take a ride on the West Coast kick. Holiday road” – Lindsay Buckingham (Holiday Road)

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We Travel To Learn

June 13, 2014 By Leave a Comment

“We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own” – Maria Mitchell

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To Travel Beyond Our World

June 12, 2014 By Leave a Comment

“To travel beyond our world is to change this present one forever” – Steven J. Carroll

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