Quote for Today: Judith Schalansky
Consulting maps can diminish the wanderlust that they awaken, as the act of looking at them can replace the act of travel. But looking at maps is much more than …
40 days of poetry: Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
40 days of poetry, Day 14: the poem today is Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Ulysses. It’s about the challenge of aging and the desire to go out with adventurousness rather than …
Quote for Today: Mary Hunter Austin
There are many areas in the desert where drinkable water lies within a few feet of the surface, indicated by the mesquite and the bunch grass ( Sporobolus airoides ). …
Quote for Today: Dean Koontz
Perhaps they thought they could bring to this valley only those things they loved, leaving behind all ugliness. We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with …
Quote for Today: Hans Cloos
It was during my enchanted days of travel that the idea came to me, which, through the years, has come into my thoughts again and again and always happily—the idea …
Quote for Today: Mark Helprin
Quite possibly there’s nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That’s when you learn that the tragedy of plants is …
The Journey Within: Expectation by Katherine McDaniel
Journeys are often described as physical experiences, but they involve our internal world too. Does our mind determine our journey? Anyone who has undertaken a long journey can attest that many of the …
Quote for Today: Roman Payne
Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or …
In Love with a Train: The Fateful Whimsy of Pica Do 7
Sometimes a journey, no matter how mundane, is the most interesting part of our day. How is art like travel? It is a wonderful quality of travel that it puts us in …
Quote for Today: Mary Anne Radmacher
I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. ―Mary Anne Radmacher Public Domain Image via Pixabay