I’m Going to Graceland

“I’m going to Graceland, for reasons I cannot explain. There’s some part of me wants to see Graceland. And I may be advised to defend every love, every ending, or maybe there’s no obligations now. Maybe I’ve a reason to believe we all will be received in Graceland” – Paul Simon (Graceland)

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For West is Where We All Plan To Go Some Day

“For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. It is where you go when you look down at the blade in your […]

With Languages, You Are At Home Anywhere

“With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere” – Edmund de Waal

Up and Off to Somewhere Else Tomorrow

“Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that’s always changing!” – Kenneth Grahame

Good Quality Gear is Always Money Well Spent

“Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent” – Tahir Shah

To Understand Your Own Country

“‎W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One can say something similar for periods of time: to understand your own century you need to have come to terms with at least two others. The key to learning something about the past […]

Far Ranging Travel and Exotic Adventure

“A lot of us first aspired to far ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent in nature, which I find an inspiring idea…Thus, when we allow ourselves to imagine as we once did, we know, with a sudden jarring clarity, that if we don’t go right now, […]

Stairway to Heaven

“Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run, there’s still time to change the road you’re on” – Led Zeppelin (Stairway to Heaven)

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Small as A World

“may came home with a smooth round stone,as small as a world and as large as alone” – E. E. Cummings

Picket the Antiseptic Nature of Modern Travel

“The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern travel, on commuter trains to insist on individualism in the midst of the herd, in hotel rooms to boycott the […]