“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 […]
Sitting In A Tin Can, Far Above The World
January 11, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“For here, am I sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, and there’s nothing I can do… Though I’m past one hundred thousand miles, I’m feeling very still – and I think my spaceship knows which way to go. Tell my wife I love her very much (she knows…)” – David Bowie (Space Oddity)
Watch the original video from 1969 (probably something you have not seen before):
Travel Comes From Some Deep Urge
January 10, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full” – Lord Dunsany
Your Seat Cushion Will Become A Floatation Device
January 9, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“In the event of a water landing, your seat cushion will become a floatation device.” ‘Yeah, until the sharks come. Then it’s a bobber’ – Anonymous
I Just Wanna Go On More Adventures
January 8, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I just wanna go on more adventures. Be around good energy. Connect with people. Learn new things. Grow” – Kid Cudi (Scott Mescudi)
Aphrodite Chills At Home In Cyprus
January 7, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playground” – Raquel Cepeda
Impossible For A Single Lady To Travel Without Injury To Her Character
January 6, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“The natural tenderness and delicacy of our constitution, added to the many dangers we are subject to from your sex, renders it almost impossible for a single lady to travel without injury to her character. And those who have a protector in a husband have, generally speaking, obstacles to prevent their roving” – Abigail Adams […]
A Desire To See Something Besides My Own Shores
January 5, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to live in my native land and love her, it should not be out of ignorance” – Margaret George
