Asuncion, Paraguay ...

May, 2004. Street kids ...

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

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with weary feet,
Until it joins some larger way,
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.

--from The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954

Marrakech, Morocco ...

November, 2005. Dusk on the Djemaa el-Fna ...

Quote: Paul Fussell ...

“All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.”

-- from The Norton Book of Travel, 1987

Socorro, New Mexico ...

September, 2008. American icons ...

Quote: Dagobert D. Runes ...

“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.”

-- from A Book of Contemplation, 1957

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ...

November, 2003. The Petronas Towers ...

Quote: René Descartes ...

"Traveling is almost like talking with men of other centuries."

-- from Discourse on Method, 1637

El Cerrito, Argentina ...

November 2002. The Patagonian Andes ...

Quote: Jack Kerouac ...

"Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life."

from On the Road, 1957

St. Louis, Missouri ...

June, 2006. An American pastime ...

Quote: Edward Dahlberg ...

"When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels."

-- from Reasons of the Heart, 1965

Goreme, Turkey ...

March, 1998. A city carved into the earth ...

Quote: George Ade ...

"The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking."

-- from Forty Modern Fables, 1901

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe ...

May, 2006. The Railway Avenue Restaurant ...

Quote: Samuel Johnson ...

"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it."

-- from A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, 1775

Nice, France ...

November 2005. Waiting for a train ...

Quote: Nikos Kazantzakis ...

“Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.”

-- from Japan, China: A Journal of Two Voyages to the Far East, 1963

Denver, Colorado ...

January, 2007. A cold day to fly ...

Quote: Robert Louis Stevenson ...

"There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign, and now and again, by a flash of recollection, lights up the contrasts of the earth."

-- from The Silverado Squatters, 1883

Mandalay, Burma ...

January, 1999. Sunset on Mandalay Hill ...

Quote: Miriam Beard ...

"Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living."

-- from Realism in Romantic Japan, 1930

Rome, Italy ...

March, 2007. And no, it wasn't on time ...

Quote: James Mitchner ...

"The simple fact seems to have been that once I saw that mysterious road outside my house, the eastern part leading to a dead end, the western to worlds unknown, I was determined to explore the latter."

-- from The World Is My Home: A Memoir, 1992

Dublin, Ireland ...

March, 2004. Wearing the green ...

Quote: Charles Kuralt ...

"Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything."

-- from On the Road with Charles Kuralt, 1985

Bryant, Arkansas ...

April, 2008. The quintessential south ...

Quote: Freya Stark ...

We sat there side by side in companionable silence, and I began to wonder again, as I had done through the night, but this time without anger—why I, and so many others like me, should find ourselves in these recondite places. We like our life intensified, perhaps. Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art….Most people anyway try to avoid having their feelings intensified: for indeed one must be strong to place oneself alone against the impact of the unknown world.

-- from Riding to the Tigris, 1959

Santa Rosa, Peru ...

September, 1998. Slow train to Puno ...

Quote: James Elroy Flecker ...

We are the Pilgrims, master; we shall go

Always a little further: it may be

Beyond the last blue mountain barred with snow,

Across that angry or that glimmering sea,

White on a throne or guarded in a cave

There lives a prophet who can understand

Why men were born: but surely we are brave,

Who make the Golden Journey to Samarkand.

-- from Hassan, 1922

Mossleigh, Alberta ...

May, 2005. Prairie grain elevators ...