“He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they acquire the vague and poetical quality which is only given to other things by time. He who has not traveled at all has this disadvantage – that all his memories […]
Walking in Memphis
December 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Walking in Memphis, I was walking with my feet ten feet off of Beale. Walking in Memphis, but do I really feel the way I feel?” – Marc Cohn (Walking in Memphis)
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Stuck on a Long Train Ride
December 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Imagine that you are stuck on a long train ride and must choose one of two books to read in order to pass the time: the first is a novel whose main character is an office worker who is essentially working to pay his monthly cable bill; the second is about someone who decides to […]
Travel Far Enough
December 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Travel far enough, you meet yourself” – David Mitchell
I Had Been in India Long Enough
December 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough” – Tahir Shah
Things One Would Rather Have Done Than Do
December 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube, there are some things one would rather have done than do” – Edward Abbey
Reduces the Value of the Place
December 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“If you travel everywhere and find the same elements everywhere, somehow it reduces the value of the place” – Gwenael Nicolas
Move for Eternity Along Roads and Seas
December 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“All night, after the exhausting games of canasta, we would look over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green reflections, the two of us leaning side by side on the railing, each of us far away, flying in his own aircraft to the stratospheric regions of his own dreams. There we understood that our […]
Around the World
December 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world” – Daft Punk (Around the World)
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Escape the Things that Harass You
December 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
