“Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who’d stayed at home” – Hilary Mantel
The Problem with Driving Around Iceland
November 24, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“The problem with driving around Iceland is that you’re basically confronted by a new soul-enriching, breath-taking, life-affirming natural sight every five goddamn minutes. It’s totally exhausting” – Stephen Markley
So Far Away
November 23, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Traveling around sure gets me down and lonely, nothing else to do but close my mind. I sure hope the road don’t come to own me, there’s so many dreams I’ve yet to find. But you’re so far away” – Carole King
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Travel and Adventure Change and Elongate Time
November 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Travellers understand, instinctively and by experience, that travel and adventure change and elongate time, even while navigating the deadlines of airline and train departures” – Paul Sheehan
It is the Journey that Matters
November 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end” – Ernest Hemingway
Technology has Doomed the Spontaneity of Adventure
November 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“We can’t jump off bridges anymore because our iPhones will get ruined. We can’t take skinny dips in the ocean because there’s no service on the beach and adventures aren’t real unless they’re on Instagram. Technology has doomed the spontaneity of adventure and we’re helping destroy it every time we Google, check-in, and hashtag” – […]
Technologies of Easy Travel
November 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Technologies of easy travel give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man’s inducement to tarry in one spot?” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Adventures Befall the Unadventurous
November 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Adventures befall the unadventurous as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold. Adventures are a logical and reliable result – and have been since at least the time of Odysseus – of the fatal act of leaving one’s home, or trying to return to it again. All adventures happen in that damned and magical […]
More in the World than Man Can See
November 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. […]
Have Love, Will Travel
November 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“I took a boat and I took a plane. I might hitch-hike or jump a railroad-train. Your kind of love drive a man insane. So look for me walkin’ just any old way – Have love, will travel” – The Sonics (Have Love, Will Travel)
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