Thanks ...

This entry completes a full year of daily wanderlust posts ... and now I think it's time to take a break, at least for a while. Thanks for reading.

Apgar, Montana ...

June 2010. Favorite place ...

Quote: John Steinbeck ...

"The next passage in my journey is a love affair. I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, with with Montana it is love, and it's difficult to analyze love when you're in it. . . . It seems to me that Montana is a great splash of grandeur. The scale is huge but not overpowering. The land is rich with grass and color, and the mountains are the kind I would create if mountains were ever put on my agenda. Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans. . . . But I see that as usual, love is inarticulate. Montana has a spell on me. It is grandeur and warmth. If Montana had a seacoast, or I could live away from the sea, I would instantly move there and petition for admission. Of all the states it is my favorite and my love."

-- from Travels with Charley: In Search of America, 1962

Lake McDonald, Montana ...

November 2008. Glacier sunset ...

Quote: Charles Tennyson Turner ...

"When the whistle blew and the call stretched thin across the night, one had to believe that any journey could be sweet to the soul."

-- attributed

Ferney, South Dakota ...

August 2005. Handsome car ...

Quote: Jack Kerouac ...

"I didn't know who I was -- I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost."

-- from On the Road, 1957

Currie, Nevada ...

September, 2007. Waiting for a train ...