White Temple from Fabulous 50s
katmcdaniel:This is a gorgeous blog… take a look at the photo of the sculptured hands at the White Temple in Thailand! Very unusual and exquisite. Reblogged from Fabulous 50s by Travel Spirit....
View ArticleQuote for Today: Matsuo Bashō
Mongolian nomads in front of their ger.© The Wandering Angel with CCLicense The sun and the moon are eternal voyagers; the years that come and go are travelers too. For those whose lives float away on...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Bret Easton Ellis
© JovanCormac with CCLicense I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Walt Whitman
Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Jack Kerouac
between you and me© haunted-shadows17 with CCLicense I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn’t know who I was – I...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Lawrence Durrell
It is a pity indeed to travel and not get this essential sense of landscape values. You do not need a sixth sense for it. It is there if you just close your eyes and breathe softly through your nose;...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Peter Matthiessen
Stupas near the north face of Kailash, the sacred Crystal Mountain, Tibet© Yasunori Koide with GNU License I grow into these mountains like a moss. I am bewitched. The blinding snow peaks and the...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Khalil Gibran
We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Mary Anne Radmacher
I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. ―Mary Anne Radmacher Public Domain Image via Pixabay
View ArticleIn Love with a Train: The Fateful Whimsy of Pica Do 7
Sometimes a journey, no matter how mundane, is the most interesting part of our day. How is art like travel? A train car passing through the Cascade Mountains as part of EXPO 1974.Public Domain Image...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Roman Payne
Gdansk, Poland Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship,...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Hypatia
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond....
View ArticleThe Journey Within: Expectation by Katherine McDaniel
Journeys are often described as physical experiences, but they involve our internal world too. Does our mind determine our journey? Expectation © Katherine McDaniel, synkroniciti, 2015 Anyone who has...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Mark Helprin
Quite possibly there’s nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That’s when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots....
View ArticleQuote for Today: Hans Cloos
Along the Waterpocket FoldCapitol Reef National Park, Utah© Katherine McDaniel It was during my enchanted days of travel that the idea came to me, which, through the years, has come into my thoughts...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Dean Koontz
Perhaps they thought they could bring to this valley only those things they loved, leaving behind all ugliness. We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which it must travel. In...
View ArticleBeloved’s Journey, Chapter 6: A Conversation in the Desert
Moving across the desert by camel is an effective way to travel. It is however, not a comfortable one, especially when the creature possesses an uncooperative and subversive nature as well as a bony...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Kevin Codd
I hear a swelling swoosh; from the south a bullet train whizzes into view on the tracks, knifes through the landscape in a matter of moments, then disappears with a whoosh. It has just covered in a few...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Mary Hunter Austin
There are many areas in the desert where drinkable water lies within a few feet of the surface, indicated by the mesquite and the bunch grass ( Sporobolus airoides ). It is this nearness of unimagined...
View Article40 days of poetry: Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
40 days of poetry, Day 14: the poem today is Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Ulysses. It’s about the challenge of aging and the desire to go out with adventurousness rather than waiting for a creeping death....
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