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 ...