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Colourful autumn is a tristful travel to the pale Planet of Melancholy!

Mehmet Murat ildan

You have not lived until you have fled a city in a country where you do not speak the language in the middle of the night.

Every spot on earth is particular, detailed, and incomprehensibly complex.

Boredom presents a very real, if insidious peril. To quote Blaine Harden from the Washington post:“Boredom kills, and those it does not kill, it cripples, and those it does not cripple, it bleeds like a leech, leaving its victims pale, insipid, and brooding. Examples abound...Rats kept in comfortable isolation quickly become jumpy, irritable, and aggressive. Their bodies twitch, their tails grow scaly." The backcountry traveler, then, in addition to developing such skills as the use of a map and compass, or the prevention and treatment of blisters, must prepare mentally and materially to cope with boredom, lest his tail grow scaly.

If you can overcome the occasional angst, you may have the chance to see some interesting things, perhaps the same things the tour buses bring people to see, but purified by solitude, if you will. In any case, do not stay in the hotel room. That is the only place you are vulnerable.

It must be noted however, that there were other Europeans that travelled to other parts of the earth, but because they did not take with them the same Protestant culture of dignity of labour, they did not record the same level of success, growth and development as the early Protestant immigrants had done.

And what I learned is this: there are places in the world war one feels new, young, and alive again.

Suzanne Joinson

Can't get myself down by thinking about what could have been, right?

I'd gotten high enough to fly through time.

I figured this guy was a fair dinkum Australian. The type of guy that worked the land all day, cracked open a beer or two at night and called girls 'sheilas'.

That's one of those questions that you think of a better answer for five minutes after you've answered it.

I figured, what harm could come from a little bit of fun? Crabs. The Canadian girl gave me crabs.

I figured that maybe he was only hanging around for the tea and tobacco and when one ran out, so would he.

Sure, I might not be someone to look up to, but you're no role model either.

Travel is life-changing. That's the promise made by a thousand websites and magazines, by philosophers and writers down the ages. Mark Twain said it was fatal to prejudice, and Thomas Jefferson said it made you wise. Anais Nin observed that "we travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls." It's all true. Self-transformation is what I sought and what I found.

Elisabeth Eaves

There's always a parallel story. The paths not taken go on in our heads.

Elisabeth Eaves

The day, like all good days, passed far too quickly.

She's happy to be home but being home means that it's an end to her adventure and escape.

Our bags will be light because it's the best way to travel.

I'd gotten on the piss and it had kicked me the fuck off. Hard.

Besides, if it was the wrong choice, what difference was one more bad decision going to make?

Your choices can only be limited by your mind.

Don't just hope, dear. Plan and do. Only reserve hope for the things you cannot control.

You can work hard,But if you don't work smarterYou 'll work hard for the rest of your life.

Unknown

Living the rest of my life in Kerobokan, waiting to die, was what I had in front of me.

You need a break every once in a while to enjoy the everyday and you need the everyday to enjoy the break you take every once in a while.

Reassuring thoughts have a funny way of getting stuck on repeat. Then you wake up one day and you can't remember where you put the last thirty years of your life.

God will make straight our paths.

Lailah Gifty Akita

May God point the right road for your journey.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Travel steadily in your define path.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Travel on your define path.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Only the traveler knows the details of the journey.

Lailah Gifty Akita

God will make straight my path.

Lailah Gifty Akita

O Lord point the right path for me to walk on it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

However, with a gut full of heroin, it's hard to be an optimist.

You don’t know about the other travellers you meet and they in turn have no idea who you are, and that is truly special, for there isn’t any detrimental preconceived notions about the other, and in this space there is room for understanding and healing. When you backpack, for the first time in a long time, you feel like you belong and are connected to not only with the world, but also with your inner self.

I felt that first awareness that there’s a whole set of species whose sounds and calls you’ve never heard—the wonder of realizing that people are growing up with an entirely different sensory experience from yours. This whole country seemed so shiny to me.

Carrie Brownstein

life will come to an end one moment in time.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Possibly in the lobby she saw someone who reminded her too much of herself (that can happen to inexperienced travelers). Or worse. That no one there reminded her of anyone she ever knew.

Where you travel to, I would love to receive a beautiful postcard.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Time define sacred events.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Oh, well, it might look like a patterned world, laid out in prim design, but to those living there it could never be so simple. They were as alive as she: that old peasant contriving to outwit the cold; that woman anxiously counting her comical flock lest one goose escape her vigilance; all those who slept, or toiled, or loved under the low-hung roofs or the sharp turrets. Those people out there, if they caught sight of her own face pressed close to the window pane, might be speculating about her. To them she was part of the pattern of the lumbering train with its trail of smoke and little boxlike carriages. Perhaps they envied her, riding at ease to distant Paris. How little they knew of that! How little she herself know what awaited her at the end of the journey!

It does not matter when you begin and end the journey. What matters is your willpower to begin and ability to complete the sacred journey.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.

Charlotte Eriksson

There are those who travel but never really arrive. Those who visit a place but never know the people. Travel is so much more when you get closer to life and how it is lived here, wherever here may be. I am moving into the unknown to come into being at home wherever I find myself. Individually, inspired, and imaginative.

Make your sacred-life an eventful journey.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The French don't snack. They will tear off the endo of a fres baguette (which, if it's warm, it's practically impossible to resist) and eat it as they leave the boulangerie. And that's usually all you will see being consumed on the street. Compare that with the public eating and drinking that goes on in America: pizza, hot dogs, nachos, tacos, heroes, potato chips, sandwiches, jerricans of coffee, half-gallon buckets of Coke (Diet, of cours) and heaven knows what else being demolished on the hoof, often on the way to the aerobic class.

The traveling world is parallel to the world of those rooted to one spot; it is the other end of the telescope, so to speak. Things that are taken by most people to have solidity and permanence become relative and subject to time. The church spire, the town hall or courthouse that watches over your days and is an ever-fixed mark to the merchant or the laborer, is to the traveling man only one among many such. The cherished touchstones of your daily life are to him a set of fresh opportunities for passing adventure, a source of profit to be extracted quickly, like gold from a small mountain, before moving on to the next El Dorado.

Every travel is sacred.

Lailah Gifty Akita

May you walk on the path of light.

Lailah Gifty Akita

May you walk on sacred-path.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We saw beautiful landscapes on the journey.

Lailah Gifty Akita

But you've looked forward to this trip for so long.""And now I won't have it to look forward to any longer.

If a local doesn't have to pay it, there's a way for traveler's to get around it.

The drive to Santa Fe on I-25 is midly zen. There are public road signs that say "Gusty Winds May Exist". This seems more like lazy philosophy than travel advice.

Chuck Klosterman

I want to move to the mountains. I want to live in a little cabin next to a towering, tenacious mountain fourteen thousand feet above sea level and eat a bowl of raisin bran every morning in its shadow.

Altogether, I can't imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace going there.

Wherever I travel to, I encounter great souls.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Walk on your sacred path.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices.

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