“Make up your mind
Decide to walk with me
Around the lake tonight
By my side
I’m not gonna lie
I’ll not be a gentleman
Behind the boathouse
I’ll show you my dark secret”
– The Toadies (Possum Kingdom) | Travel Quote of the Day
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Archives for October 2015
Possum Kingdom (Lake)
October 31, 2015 By Leave a Comment
Travel In Contested Territory
October 30, 2015 By Leave a Comment
“Your favorite occupation? Travel in contested territory. Hard-working writing and reading when safely home, in the knowledge that an amusing friend is later coming to dinner” – Christopher Hitchens | Travel Quote of the Day
Cities And Countries Alive
October 29, 2015 By Leave a Comment
“This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive, as feeling, as fickle and uncertain as people. Their degrees of love and devotion are as varying as with any human relation. Just […]
First Months Of Travel
October 28, 2015 By Leave a Comment
“Until-as often happened during those first months of travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband’s voice speaking disdainfully in my ear: So this is what you gave up everything for? This is why you gutted our entire life together? For a few stalks of asparagus and an […]
Spirit Of Place!
October 27, 2015 By Leave a Comment
“Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name” – Alice Meynell | Travel Quote of the Day
Airports Lead You Way Back
October 26, 2015 By Leave a Comment
“I suppose there has been nothing like the airports since the age of the stage-stops – nothing quite as lonely, as sombre-silent. The red-brick depots were built right into the towns they marked – people didn’t get off at those isolated stations unless they lived there. But airports lead you way back in history like […]
Corners Of The Globe
October 25, 2015 By Leave a Comment
“By travelling to all the corners of the globe, it allows me to further define the ever changing world we live in, which in turn helps me to redefine myself, therefore it is an important process towards becoming a complete person” – Andrew James Pritchard | Travel Quote of the Day
Get Miles Away
October 24, 2015 By Leave a Comment
“I love this island, but this island’s killing me.
Sitting here in silence, man, I don’t get no peace.
The waves upon my shore, take me away piece by piece.
Gonna leave everything I know, gonna head out towards the sea.
Jump off this island, gonna head out towards the sea”
– Gomez (Get Miles) | Travel Quote of the Day
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You Cannot Travel To The Known
October 23, 2015 By Leave a Comment
“You cannot travel to the known; because all travels are towards the future and the future is unknown!” – Mehmet Murat ildan | Travel Quote of the Day
The Journey is Preparation For The Experience
October 22, 2015 By Leave a Comment
“I believe that Marrakech ought to be earned as a destination. The journey is the preparation for the experience. Reaching it too fast derides it, makes it a little less easy to understand” – Tahir Shah | Travel Quote of the Day
