“There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug – not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel. I have yet to do that, but someday I hope” – Emilio Estevez
Come On and Take A Free Ride
May 3, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“The mountain is high, the valley is low, and you’re confused on which way to go. So I’ve come here to give you a hand, and lead you into the promised land. So, come on and take a free ride, come on and sit here by my side, come on and take a free ride!” – Edgar Winter (Free Ride)
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You Have To Have A Global Attitude
May 2, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“No one’s going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude” – Rupert Murdoch
One Travels More Usefully When They Travel Alone
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“I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more” – Thomas Jefferson
Negotiate A Hostage Situation In Quebec
April 30, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“You ever want to negotiate a hostage situation in Quebec, I’m your man. Send me in for a little parley and the francophone miscreants will flee, hands over bleeding ears” – Will Ferguson
Know How To Travel
April 29, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail” – Marilyn vos Savant
They Seem To Have That Light In Australia
April 28, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes even a concrete highway painful to behold and turns every distant reflective surface into a little glint of flame. Do you know how sometimes on very fine days the sun will shine with […]
I Should Not Leave The Country
April 27, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“On general principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes” – Arthur Conan Doyle
The World At Large
April 26, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I like songs about drifters – books about the same – they both seem to make me feel a little less insane. Walked on off to another spot, I still haven’t gotten anywhere that I want. Did I want love? Did I need to know? Why does it always feel like I’m caught in an undertow?” – Modest Mouse (The World at Large)
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The Perfect Journey Is Never Finished
April 25, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore” – Rosita Forbes
