“Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much […]
Travelling Without Moving
July 12, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I know all we’re doing is travelling without moving. Speed freak faster than a speedin’ bullet, slow down. If I don’t, I might just lose it, locked up. You’ve got me honey, locked up under heavy brakin’, yeah. You know I’ve got to hang on, drive too fast, I might be last” – Jamiroquai (Travelling Without Moving)
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The Moon, Risen At Our Departure
July 11, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind, and the moon, which had risen at our departure to give us light, rolled through the sky like a wheel detached from its carriage” – Théophile Gautier
Compelled Into This Country
July 10, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I am compelled into this country. I will cross the continent from one end to the other. I have every intention to know it with my heart” – Patrick White
Travel Opens Your Mind
July 9, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell” – Libba Bray
The Sad Self That I Fled From
July 8, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Right There With Magellan
July 7, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“It was as if I was right there with Magellan, following every curve of his pen as he wrote down his words to his beloved ones confiding his secret. I had become the ink, and the tip was tattooing my path. I was going to follow his dream, but still, I wished I knew why” […]
The Time When I Can Return Home
July 6, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Look at that wonderful moonlight. It makes me long for the time when I can return home” – Wu Cheng’en
I Call This The Traveller’s Chant
July 5, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I call this the traveller’s chant. Whether you sitting on a train or in the back of a car, thinking, maybe it’s me, yes I do have places to be, and I’ll be there. Do I start at the end or do I end at the start, and in this little bit of time will […]
There Will One Day Be Time Travel
July 4, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn’t forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it” – David Deutsch
