“The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They’re right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see more, enjoy more, take delight in small things; it makes life richer. You feel more alive, less cocooned” – Jane Wilson-Howarth | Travel Quote of the Day
Unassuming Donut Eaters
November 4, 2015 By Leave a Comment
“Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters” – Jan Wong | Travel Quote of the Day
The Fabulous White City
November 3, 2015 By Leave a Comment
“It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and […]
Bring Me That Horizon
November 2, 2015 By Leave a Comment
“Now, bring me that horizon” – Johnny Depp | Travel Quote of the Day
Free To Travel
November 1, 2015 By Leave a Comment
“Let me be a free man – free to travel, free to stop, free to work” – Chief Joseph | Travel Quote of the Day
Possum Kingdom (Lake)
October 31, 2015 By Leave a Comment
“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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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
