Prague, Czech Republic ...

October 2001. The castle at night ...

Quote: Muriel Rukeyser ...

"The journey is my home."

-- from "Journey," in One LIfe, 1957

Incline Village, Nevada ...

September 2002. Visiting the Ponderosa ...

Quote: Francis Bacon ...

"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience."

-- from Essays: Of Travel, 1597

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ...

May 2004. Dreaming of summer ...

Quote: Thomas Fuller ...

"He that travels much, knows much."

-- from Gnomologia, 1732

Pierre, South Dakota ...

December 2003. Merry Christmas!

Quote: William Hazlitt ...

"I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home."

-- from "On Going On A Journey," 1822

Amsterdam, Netherlands ...

November 2007. The holiday season ...

Quote: Charles Dudley Warner ...

"There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it, when the traveler is settled simply as to his destination, and commits himself to his unknown fate and all the anticipations of adventure before him."

-- from Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing, 1874

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina ...

May, 2003. Reminders of war ...

Quote: Bertrand Russell ...

"Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me."

-- from The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, volume 1, 1967

Valparaiso, Chile ...

November, 2002. The Brisish arch ...

Quote: Anna Louise Strong ...

I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.

-- from I Change Worlds: the Remaking of an American, 1935

Los Angeles, California ...

January 2008. A travelers' temple ...

Quote: Lin Yutang ...

"A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler is one who does not know where he came from."

-- from The Importance of Living, 1937

Paris, France ...

June 2002. Rock star's grave ...

Quote: Theophile Gautier ..

"The pleasure of traveling consists in the obstacles, the fatigue, and even the danger. What charm can anyone find in an excursion, when he is always sure of reaching his destination, of having horses ready waiting for him, a soft bed, an excellent supper, and all the ease and comfort which he can enjoy in his own home! One of the great misfortunes of modern life is the want of any sudden surprise, and the absence of all adventures. Everything is so well arranged, so admirably combined, so plainly labeled, that chance is an utter impossibility."

-- from Voyage en Espagne (Wanderings in Spain), 1843

St. George's, Grenada ...

October 1997. The Carenage ...

Quote: Ambrose Bierce ...

PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously.

-- from The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

Angkor, Cambodia ...

February 2001. Ta Prohm temple ...

Quote: Alain de Botton ...

"The twenty-four-hour diner, the station waiting room and the motel are sanctuaries for those who have, for noble reasons, failed to find a home in the ordinary world."

-- from The Art of Travel, 2002

Split, Croatia ...

May, 2003. Cathedral of St. Duje ...

Quote: e.e. cummings ...

--- listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go

-- from "pity this monster manunkind," 1944

Bornholm, Denmark ...

July 2002. Østerlars church ...

Quote: Paul Theroux ...

"It is fatal to know too much at the outset: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is overcertain of his plot."

-- from "Discovering Dingle," first published in Travel & Leisure, 1976

Fruita, Utah ...

June, 2007. Capitol Reef orchard ...

Quote: Robert Service ...

There's a race of men that don't fit in,
A race that can't stay still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin,
And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and they rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain's crest;
Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood,
And they don't know how to rest.

-- from "The Men That Don't Fit In," published in Songs of a Sourdough, 1907

Calcutta, India ...

February 2000. Victoria Memorial Hall ...

Quote: Storm Jameson ...

"I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible."

-- from Journey from the North, volume 1, 1969

Helsinki, Finland ...

May, 2000. Temppeliaukio Kirkko ...

Quote: Martha Gellhorn ...

“The only aspect of our travels that is interesting to others is disaster.”

-- from Travels with Myself and Another, 1978

Brimstone Hill, St. Kitts ...

April 1996. Green Vervet Monkey ...

Quote: Anne Morrow Lindbergh ...

"Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the air to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas."

-- from North to the Orient, 1935

Seoul, South Korea ...

February 2000. Kyongbok Palace ...

Quote: Russell Baker

"The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist."

-- essay published in The New York Times, August 6, 1964

Moscow, Russia ...

May, 2000. St. Basil's ...

Quote: Agnes Repplier ...

"The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life."

-- from Times and Tendencies, 1931

Esbjerg, Denmark ...

May 1999. Mennesket ved Havet ...

Quote: Vachel Lindsay ...

I want to go wandering. Who shall declare
I will regret if I dare?

To the rich days of age-
To some mid-afternoon-
A wide fenceless prairie,
A lonely old tune,
Ant-hills and sunflowers,
And sunset too soon.

-- from "I Want to go Wandering," 1904

Twin Falls, Idaho ...

September 2007. Shoshone Falls ...

Quote: Daniel Drake ...

"Among the therapeutic agents not to be found bottled up and labelled on our shelves, is Travelling; a means of prevention, of cure, and of restoration, which has been famous in all ages."

-- from an article in Western Medical and Physical Journal, 1827

Potosi, Bolivia ...

September, 1998. El Cerro Rico ...

Quote: Freya Stark ...

“The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.”

-- from an article in the Sunday Telegraph, 1993

Halawa, Hawaii ...

May 2008. Secluded beach ...

Quote: Ralph Waldo Emerson ...

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”

-- from "Art," published in Essays: First Series, 1841

Pokhara, Nepal ...

February 2000. Tibetan refugee camp ...

Quote: Gerald Gould ...

Beyond the East the sunrise, beyond the West the sea,
And East and West the wander-thirst that will not let me be;
It works in me like madness, dear, to bid me say good-by;
For the seas call and the stars call, and oh ! the call of the sky!

from "Wander-thirst," published in Lyrics, 1906

Pagan, Burma ...

January 1999. Ancient temples ...

Quote: Simon Raven ...

“Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.”

-- from an article in The Spectator, 1968

East Ely, Nevada ...

September 2007. Desert railway ...

Quote: G. K. Chesterton ...

"There are two ways of getting home, and one of them is to stay there."

-- from The Everlasting Man, 1925

Agua Caliente, Peru ...

September 1998. Third-world town ...

Quote: Edith Durham ...

"There is a peculiar pleasure in riding out into the unknown — a pleasure which no second journey on the same trail ever affords."

-- from High Albania, 1909

Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria ...

March, 1998. Castle ruins ...

Quote: Colette ...

"The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time."

-- from Paris from my Window, 1944

San Francisco, California ...

January 2007. 17th & Castro ...

Quote: James K. Baxter ...

Alone we are born
And die alone
Yet see the red-gold cirrus
over snow-mountain shine.

Upon the upland road
Ride easy, stranger
Surrender to the sky
Your heart of anger.

-- "High Country Weather," 1945

Atlanta, Georgia ...

June 2007. Railway station night ...

Quote: Aldous Huxley ...

"The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator."

-- from Along the Road, 1925

Shoal Bay, Anguilla ...

September, 1996. The Polynesia at anchor ...

Quote: John Cam Hobhouse ...

"Travel-writers are in one respect the very reverse of prophets, for whatever honour they gain is in their own country. In the regions and amongst the people whom they profess to describe, not only their errors, but their partialities, and the cause of them, their want of attention and assiduity, their blind credulity, and the weakness of the authorities on which they have confided, are too well known to allow them the enjoyment of any great reputation."

-- from Journey Through Albania and Other Provinces of Turkey, 1813

Port, Ireland ...

March, 2004. The County Donegal coast ...

Quote: Roald Amundsen ...

"I simply cannot travel into the depths of North Dakota again ... I retch when I think of it."

-- communication to F. Herman Gade, 1908

Grants, New Mexico ...

September, 2008. Out on Route 66 ...

Quote: Edna St. Vincent Millay ...

The railroad track is miles away,
And the day is loud with voices speaking,
Yet there isn't a train goes by all day
But I hear its whistle shrieking.

All night there isn't a train goes by,
Though the night is still for sleep and dreaming,
But I see its cinders red on the sky,
And hear its engine steaming.

My heart is warm with friends I make,
And better friends I'll not be knowing;
Yet there isn't a train I'd rather take,
No matter where it's going.

-- "Travel," published in Second April, 1921

Victoria Falls, Zambia ...

May, 2006. Crossing the border ...

Quote: Hermann Hesse ...

"The first small town on the southern side of the mountains. Here the true life of wandering begins, the life I love, wandering without any special direction, taking it easy in sunlight, the life of a vagabond wholly free. I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like."

--from Wandering: Notes and Sketches, 1972

Schellbourne, Nevada ...

September, 2007. Following the LIncoln Highway ...

Quote: Dick Francis ...

"In time we left the M1 and traveled northeast on the difficult old A1, and I thought that no one in their senses would drive from London to York when they could go by train."

-- from Straight, 1989

Silverton, Colorado ...

September, 2008. Mountain railroad ...

Quote: Vilhjálmur Stefánsson ...

"My favorite thesis is that an adventure is a sign of incompetence."

-- from My LIfe with the Eskimo, 1913

Milan, Italy ...

November 2005. Stazione Centrale ...

Quote: Thomas Bell ...

"Like cities, railroad stations were most exciting at night; and beyond question the finest way to begin a journey was to board a midnight train."

from Out of this Furnace, 1941

Livingston, Guatemala ...

November, 2004. Nighttime street ...

Quote: Jonathan Raban ...

Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.

-- from For Love and Money, 1987

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ...

June 2007. City of Brotherly Love ...

Quote: William Shakespeare ...

"Journeys end in lovers meeting."

--from Twelfth Night, 1601

Tangier, Morocco ...

November 2005. Southbound train ...

Quote: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ...

"We travelers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic."

-- from a letter, written March 10, 1718

Freeport, Maine ...

May, 2008. The Big Indian ...

Quote: Lisa St. Aubin de Teran ...

"Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, "I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station."

--from Off the Rails, 1989

Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe ...

May, 2006. The falls ...

Quote: Paul Theroux ...

"Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind."

-- from The Great Railway Bazaar, 1975

Buenos Aires, Argentina ...

April 2004. Leaving the harbor ...

Quote: Robert Louis Stevenson ...

"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."

-- from "El Dorado," Virginibus Puerisque, 1881

Skopje, Macedonia ...

March 1998. Folk dancing ...

Quote: Walt Whitman ...

The earth expanding right hand and left hand,
The picture alive, every part in its best light,
The music falling in where it is wanted, and stopping where it is not wanted,
The cheerful voice of the public road—the gay fresh sentiment of the road.

O highway I travel! O public road! do you say to me, Do not leave me?
Do you say, Venture not? If you leave me, you are lost?
Do you say, I am already prepared—I am well-beaten and undenied—adhere to me?

O public road! I say back, I am not afraid to leave you—yet I love you;
You express me better than I can express myself;
You shall be more to me than my poem.

I think heroic deeds were all conceiv’d in the open air, and all great poems also;
I think I could stop here myself, and do miracles;
(My judgments, thoughts, I henceforth try by the open air, the road;)
I think whatever I shall meet on the road I shall like, and whoever beholds me shall like me;
I think whoever I see must be happy.

-- from "Song of the Open Road," 1856

Monaco ...

November 2005. Princess Grace ...

Quote: Vita Sackville-West ...

"Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong."

--from Passenger to Tehran, 1926

Hartford, Connecticut ...

December, 2007. Winter flying ...

Quote: A. E. Housman ...

Towns and countries woo together,
Forelands beacon, belfries call;
Never lad that trod on leather
Lived to feast his heart with all.

Up, lad: thews that lie and cumber
Sunlit pallets never thrive;
Morns abed and daylight slumber
Were not meant for man alive.

Clay lies still, but blood's a rover;
Breath's a ware that will not keep.
Up, lad: when the journey's over
There'll be time enough to sleep.

from A Shropshire Lad, 1896

New Orleans, Louisiana ...

November, 2008. Bywater sunset ...

Quote: Lawrence MIllman ...

"Travel is the realm of the improbable adventure, the quick fix, the ship passing in the night. It entitles you to meet interesting people, whom you would never meet, even if you laid traps or advertised for them. Not only do you meet them, but also unmeet them, all in the space of, it often seems, a mere compacted evening. As there is so little time, bodies in motion tend to drop their guard and immediatly get on with their stories. Then the proverbial ships part, each to its destination, never again to brush each other's wake."

-- from Last Places: A Journey in the North, 2000

Budapest, Hungary ...

March, 1998. Dusk on the Danube ...

Quote: J.R.R. Tolkein ...

"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to."

-- from The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954

Cape Town, South Africa ...

May, 2006. All the latest news ...

Quote: Sir Richard Burton ...

"One of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Home, man feels once more happy. The blood flows with the fast circulation of youth, excitement gives a new vigour to the muscles, and a sense of sudden freedom adds an inch to the stature."

-- journal entry, December 2, 1856, en route to Zanzibar

Vatican City ...

March 2007. Catholic beefcake ...