“This much is certain: travel is always a good thing.”
-–Voltaire
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After a Saturday riding a bulldozer…
“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.”
—Henry Miller
Lucky bastard…
“Just two things are necessary for success in this life: One is a sense of purpose and the other is a touch of madness.”
—John Harricharan
Tourists…
From The Skagway News:
“A newcomer to Alaska was on a tour and asked about the flora and fauna. At one point the guide talked about Rubus Spectabilis, aka Salmonberry, to which the … lady responded, ‘Alaskan salmon eat berries? How do they jump that high?'”
“He’d say, ‘Your mother and I are going to The Shack for the weekend, anybody want to come?’ And of course, we all wanted to come, and now I look at it as kind of a metaphor of how one can find absolute happiness, with the least amount of stuff.”
–Nina Leopold Bradley
And Now a Word From One of Our Sponsors…
“All of us have hopes of being a poet, artist, discoverer, philosopher, scientist; of possessing the attributes of all these simultaneously. Few are permitted to achieve any one 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 anything we like, as long as we like, and, when we’re tired of it, pull up stakes and move on. Travel — the solitude of the mountains, the emptiness of the desert, the delicacy of a minaret; eternal change, limitless contrast, unending variety.”
–Eric Lang as quoted by Robert Fulton Jr.
“One Man Caravan” has been on my to-read list for awhile now. It’s the story of Robert Fulton Jr’s 25,000 mile trek from London to Tokyo through 32 countries in 18 months on a customized twin-cylinder Douglas motorcycle at the age of 23.
Great. Now I’m back reading travel books.
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Why are you awake?
“DON’T PANIC.”
Sound Advice from:
“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”
–Douglas Adams
Straight, No Chaser
“I say, play your own way. Don’t play what the public want you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.”
–Thelonious Monk
Beast or God
“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.”
—Aristotle
Well…actually…hmm…
Last night on The Colbert Report with author Ann Patchett debating bricks & mortar book stores vs. buying online:
Colbert: “One of the rare times that I read books is to escape, so I don’t have to talk to people.”
Patchett: “Right. But, if you never, ever talk to people, and you meet all of your needs on the Internet, you wake up one day and you are the Unabomber.”
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“I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.”
— David Foster Wallace
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