Nice, France ...

November, 2005. Windows and shutters ...

Quote: William Henry Crosse ..

"The ideal traveler is a temperate man, with a sound constitution, a digestion like an ostrich, a good temper, and no race prejudices."

-- from Medical Hints, 1906

Haarlem, Netherlands ...

November, 2005. Rooflines ...

Quote: John Walden ...

"The ability to see the bright side when times get tough may be an asset more valuable than physical conditioning."

-- from Jungle Travel and Survival, 2001

Tikal, Guatemala ...

November, 2004. Famous ruins ...

Quote: W. Somerset Maugham ...

"The wise traveller travels only in imagination. . . . Those are the best journeys, the journeys that you take at your own fireside, for then you lose none of your illusions."

-- from "Honolulu," in The Trembling of a Leaf, 1921

Seattle, Washington ...

February 2009. Night flight ...

Quote: Larry McMurtry ...

"And why do the worst journeys make the best books?"

-- from Roads: Driving America's Great Highways, 2000

Tangier, Morocco ...

November 2005. The Medina ...

Quote: Alfred Korzybski ...

"The map is not the territory."

-- from a paper presented to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1931

Saba, Netherlands Antilles ...

September 1996. Favorite passport stamp ...

Quote: Graham Greene ...

"He gave the impression that very many cities had rubbed him smooth."

-- From A Gun for Sale, 1936

Thompson, Utah ...

July 2006. Abandoned motel ...

Quote: Lin Yutang ...

"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow."

-- from The Little Critic: Essays, Satires, and Sketches on China: Second Series, 1933-1935, 1935

St. Paul, Minnesota ...

February 2007. Home of the Empire Builder ...

Quote: Gustave Flaubert ...

"Travel makes one modest: one sees what a tiny place one occupies in the world."

-- from a letter to Louise Colet, March 27, 1853

Parkland, Alberta ...

March 2005. The Dance Society ...

Quote: Freya Stark ...

"To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world."

-- from Baghdad Sketches, 1932

Saqqara, Egypt ...

March, 2007. The sentinel ...

Quote: Mark Twain ...

"There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage."

-- from a letter to a friend, 1867

Phnom Penh, Cambodia ...

February 2001. The waterfront ...

Quote: Jan Morris ...

"But as to the spirit of the place, I have several rules: One is to grin like a dog and run about the city. Another thing is from E.M. Forster, who wrote an alleged guidebook to Alexandria. He said the way to look at Alexandria is to wander aimlessly around and to have all your antennae out in all directions so that nothing, absolutely nothing, is uninteresting."

-- from an interview, in A Sense of Place: Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration, 2004

Berlin, Germany ...

October 2001. Checkpoint Charlie ...

Quote: James Fenimore Cooper ...

"On the human imagination events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity."

-- from The Deerslayer, 1841

Palm Island, St. Vincent ...

October 1997. Highway 90 ...

Quote: Theodore Dreiser ...

"To the untraveled, territory other than their own familiar heath is invariably fascinating. Next to love, it is the one thing which solaces and delights."

-- from Sister Carrie, 1900

Tay Ninh, Vietnam ...

February 2001. Cao Dai Temple ...

Quote: Charles Dickens ...

"It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows, listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning."

-- from The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, 1844

Brussels, Belgium ...

June 2002. The city's main attraction ...

Quote: Eudora Welty ...

“Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.”

-- from One Writer's Beginnings, 1983

Creston, South Dakota ...

September, 2006. The Creston Dinosaur ...