“Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and […]
Rush Across the Sea
June 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea” – Horace
What Ships are Built For
June 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for” – John Augustus Shedd
Island in the Sun
June 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“On an island in the sun, we’ll be playin’ an’ havin’ fun. And it makes me feel so fine, I can’t control my brain” – Weezer (Island in the Sun)
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Travelers as Foreigners
June 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Travelers never think that they are the foreigners” – Mason Cooley
Go Someplace You’ve Never Been
June 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before” – Dalai Lama
One’s Own Country as a Foreign Land
June 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land” – G. K. Chesterton
Heathrow’s Terminal Illness
June 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“I did not fully understand the dread term ‘terminal illness’ until I saw Heathrow for myself” – Dennis Potter
Travel is Like a Giant Blank Canvas
June 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Travel is like a giant blank canvas, and the painting on the canvas is only limited by one’s imagination” – Ross Morley
The Power of Wandering
June 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering” – Alfred North Whitehead
