“Foreign lands never yield their secrets to a traveller. The best they offer are tantalising snippets, just enough to inflame the imagination. The secrets they do reveal are your own – the ones you have kept from yourself. And this is reason enough to travel, to leave home” – Graeme Sparkes
Suddenly You Get A Whole New City
June 2, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city. You go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn’t even know were there. Everything changes” – Samuel R. Delany
My Work Required An Enormous Amount Of My Time
June 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel” – Neil Armstrong
It’s A Battered Old Suitcase To A Hotel Someplace
May 31, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“It’s a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is on an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey. Goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen flame keepers and goodnight, Matilda, too” – Tom Waits (Tom Traubert’s Blues)
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Walking Is The Perfect Way Of Moving
May 30, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Walking is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the […]
Get Married At The Airport
May 29, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“If you have someone that you think is the one, don’t just sort of think in your ordinary mind, ok, let’s make a date, let’s plan this and make a party, get married. Take that person and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to travel all around the […]
I Don’t Want To Go To Peru
May 28, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I don’t want to go to Peru.” How do you know? You’ve never been there.” I’ve never been to hell either and I’m pretty sure I don’t want to go there” – Richard Paul Evans
Select Travel Destinations According To Their Usefulness
May 27, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work” – Jose Saramago
Adventure is Now Reactionary
May 26, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“All adventure is now reactionary” – William F. Buckley, Jr.
Everything Will Be Alright In The End
May 25, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Everything will be alright in the end, so if it is not alright, it is not the end” – Deborah Moggach
