“I ease into the idea of letting go of control and simply let life take the reins. And when I don’t hold it so tightly, it doesn’t thrash against me so wildly. It calms to a trot and allows me to take in the scenery, experience love, and learn what is important in this world: […]
The Wish to Travel
November 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.” – Paul Theroux
Why Do The Wrong People Travel?
November 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?” – Noel Coward
In Travel, We Attain Them All
November 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“All of us have hopes of being poet, artist, discoverer, philosopher, scientist; of possessing the attributes of all these simultaneously. Few are permitted to achieve any of them in daily life. But in travel we attain them all. Then we have our day of glory, when all our dreams come true, when we can be […]
The Journey Itself Is My Home
November 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“The journey itself is my home” – Matsuo Basho
It’s Important to Travel and Move
November 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“It’s important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you’ve got more to feed back into your work. For me, it’s a natural thing” – Cate Blanchett
Come Away With Me
November 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Come away with me and we’ll kiss on a mountaintop. Come away with me and I’ll never stop loving you. And I want to wake up with the rain falling on a tin roof, while I’m safe there in your arms. So all I ask is for you to come away with me in the night, come away with me” – Norah Jones
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Every Journey Makes Its Own Map
November 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“You have not traveled enough,” she said. “Or you’d know that every journey makes its own map across your heart” – Sharon Shinn
Shanghai, The Orient’s Original Opium-den of Iniquity
November 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“A peek inside the city’s many nightspots reveals a Shangri-La-di-da of tiny Shanghai socialites in even tinier outfits dancing provocatively with well-to-do Westerners. But while such sights may draw gasps from some people, the truth is that this kind of thing is nothing new for Shanghai, the Orient’s original opium-den of iniquity” – Tom Carter
Comforting to Curse the Tropics
November 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“It was such ecstasy to dream, and dream – till you got a bite. A scorpion bite. Then the first duty was to get up out of the grass and kill the scorpion; and the next to bathe the bitten place with alcohol or brandy; and the next to resolve to keep out of the […]
